NAS Drives and Windows Backup

Can you use Windows Backup with a NAS? Yes!

What are the problems? The problems are with using the scheduler. When you want to do a backup that runs at a regular interval, that backup must run as a particular user on that machine.

The problem with that approach is that the backup runs as a whole new background session without any cached password information. In other words, it doesn't know how to log into your NAS. Of course if you don't use authentication then this isn't a problem.

I solved this problem for a client using Cobian Backup. This program is free and it's a pretty nice backup program. It saves in a standard zip format so you can use Cobain or your favorite unzip program to restore your data. If your NAS supports FTP you can use that protocol to do backups with Cobian. All in all it's a better solution than Windows Backup and it's free.

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