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Backup USB Drives that are attached to a MAC Pro Desktop

Working with a photographer who has two PCs, a MAC Pro, and a MAC Book Pro.

The PCs are on a peer to peer network with other PCs. We also have NetGear NAS units on the network.

He keeps 4 or more USB drives (each in the 1-5T capacity range) connected to the MAC Pro desktop.

We are trying to find a program that will back up these USB drives on a schedule to the current or new NAS drives.

Unfortunately, I am a PC guy and not familiar with any MAC software that may be out there that could backup the USB drives.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

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Irwin W.

My suggestion is a a combination of local and off-site/cloud backup. Using these solutions, you get the best of all worlds. The great thing about synching with iDrive is that as your photographer client wants to share his work with clients, iDrive would allow him/her to create web shares based on client names with passwords. Check it out.

Install a QNAP NAS TS420 is the version I have. It supports the time machine protocal and you can also create AFP file shares

QNAP also has a plugin that allows you to sync backups to a cloud backup solution. You can consider this a backup to your backup and RAID redundancy.CLICK HERE to learn about iDrive

PS, there is no need for knowledge of the Mac OS or this NAS but the learning curve is also not that steep.

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Thank you everyone for the suggestions.

I will look into the various backup programs.

As far as consolidating to one large new NAS unit, that would be ideal but the budget issues also have to be considered.

I agree with the need to have on-site and off-site redundancy, but cloud storage of 18 T of data is also out of the park budget wise. The client is willing to take the risk of just on-site redundancy. His decision.

We don't have a Synology device. Have heard good things about them and if we have to add a device that is probably what we would bring into the mix.

Thanks again for the different suggestions and perspectives. Will split the points.

Irwin W.

Just some additional food for thought.

With all of that growing storage look at options like this for your client. This will allow expansion and right off the bat go with 4TB drives with a hot spare in a RAID 5 configuration. You'll get approx 20TB or raw diskspace.

The additional items are for storage expansion units.

https://www.qnap.com/i/en/product/contrast.php?cp%5B%5D=199&cp%5B%5D=120&cp%5B%5D=150