Work back up on home NAS?

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   Hi can i set up three computers at work to remote back up to a nas on a router at home? I'm not a technical guy my worry is that the software will just see 4 buddies and share the data across them all but i want it all on one drive. Also will the files be in some sort of back up format or will we be able to access them remotely?
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fasteddie Members Profile Find Members Posts Buddy Joined: 17/October/2008 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote fasteddie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Work back up on home NAS? Posted: 17/October/2008 at 11:32am
	Hi can i set up three computers at work to remote back up to a nas on a router at home? I'm not a technical guy my worry is that the software will just see 4 buddies and share the data across them all but i want it all on one drive. Also will the files be in some sort of back up format or will we be able to access them remotely? Thanks

John Members Profile Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Admin Group Head of development Joined: 02/May/2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 203	Post Options Post Reply Quote John Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17/October/2008 at 11:41am
	Yes you can certainly do this. Here are the steps you'd need to take: 1) Set up a copy of BuddyBackup running at home. Choose a new ID, say "fasteddie_home" 2) On that copy of BuddyBackup click "Tools" and "Options" 3) Click on the "Advanced" tab. Set the "Backup location" to your NAS storage (may have to be first mounted as a drive, e.g. "X:"). Restart BuddyBackup. 4) Install BuddyBackup on each of your work computers. On each of those, choose new IDs such as "fasteddie_1", "fasteddie_2" etc. 5) Add the first home buddy ("fasteddie_work") as a buddy of each of the three work buddies BuddyBackup will only back up to chosen buddies, so each of your machines at work will all only backup to the home one. To answer your other question, unfortunately the backups are stored in an encrypted and propriatary format so you won't be able to access without using BuddyBackup. This is not done to be awkward - the reason is so that if it was someone else's computer, your files would be protected. We appreciate that this is a little cumbersome, so we're working on ways to make this process easier, and also enable the recipient to be able to view the receieved files. Hope this helps. John

fasteddie Members Profile Find Members Posts Buddy Joined: 17/October/2008 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote fasteddie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17/October/2008 at 11:47am
	Hi I am trying to download at work at present to see the interface but it will not let me access the supernode. Is this a security setting or is it down? This presents another question - when i am up and running does everything flow through the supernode or will my PCs back up regardless of your supernode. Or have i got the wrong end of the stick?

John Members Profile Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Admin Group Head of development Joined: 02/May/2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 203	Post Options Post Reply Quote John Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17/October/2008 at 11:52am
	There was a temporary outage just recently - try again now. The SuperNode requires outgoing ports to be open. The supernode only acts as an intermediary to help the user's find each other etc. The data does NOT pass through the supernode. Once user's have found each other then they can usually connect. Under normal circumstances you won't need the supernode to backup. However, if things like IP addresses change, then connection to the supernode would be required so buddies can find the new address.

fasteddie Members Profile Find Members Posts Buddy Joined: 17/October/2008 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote fasteddie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21/October/2008 at 3:57pm
	Thanks John, I am about to buy a NAS drive for this purpose and a couple of things crossed my mind. The first is about whether the device will be OK for what I want to do so I have listed it below. The other is that I wondered if I could get buddy backup to back up the files I want whilst local and then take the drive home for any changes and additional files. The reason for this is I have more than 30gb to backup and my home broadband has limits on downloads. Can I do this, if so how? The drive I am looking at is Mediasonic HD9-SU2LAH High Performance Network Attached External Portable 750Gb Storage drive

John Members Profile Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Admin Group Head of development Joined: 02/May/2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 203	Post Options Post Reply Quote John Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21/October/2008 at 5:09pm
	I'm afraid I can't comment about any specific purchase, but I'd imagine that as long as the item can be mounted as a drive in Windows then this should work. With regards to your request, unfortunately there is not a way to do this. The only option would be to physically move your office PCs to your home so they use the local network to do the initial backup and then move them back again to do the day to day backups. Obviously unless they're on laptops, this won't be practical. I think this would be a good feature for the future with BuddyBackup so I've made a note of this suggestion. John