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Old 04-22-2010, 02:05 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
So far I've been liking CrashPlan, though I haven't been using their online backup yet, just backing my PC up to my NAS with it.

As for these programs not supporting a NAS, have you tried just mapping a drive to see if it accepts that?
My NAS doesn't support Bittorrent. I'm pretty sure Carbonite and the others won't support mapped drives. Carbonite even says so on their website.
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If you've tried that, there's another pretty simple work around, just create a symbolic link:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

I created a directory link (I can't remember now if I used /D or /J) from C:\BackupTarget to my nas \\nas.ip.add.ress\Volume_1\Backups\photon, and then told the app to backup to C:\BackupTarget. You could do the same, just create C:\BackupSource mapped to your NAS root and specify the directories, hopefully the app isn't smart enough to tell it's a symlink instead of a real directory.
I could give that a shot. I don't quite understand what this produces though. It creates a file that I can click on or what exactly?
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