Hi,
This is a long story but I'll leave the details for later. Now, I just need to quickly backup my data. To make it short, I have a Synology DS1512+ box as a NAS connected to my network. It served me well for over 5 years. Anyways, the raid5 volume crashed for reasons I'll explain later. However, I can still see my data with slow access speeds. I have about 5TB of data collected over 20 years of computing.
Not everything is backed up, and my latest backup was like 4 months ago. Anyways, I just want to copy this 5TB into external drives or maybe internal ones before I fix the volume. So, my 1 million dollar question is : what's the best way to copy? Manually that is. I know if I use windows I'll run into so many sorts of problems like long paths/errors which might halt the process and make start all over. There must be a better way. I know a little about xcopy but I don't think it is the best. Should I use the built in back up feature in DSM OS?
The other little issue is that I must leave for a trip in few hours and come after two days. I would rather fix this problem before going but I can't. It is a family thing.
Please help !
This is a long story but I'll leave the details for later. Now, I just need to quickly backup my data. To make it short, I have a Synology DS1512+ box as a NAS connected to my network. It served me well for over 5 years. Anyways, the raid5 volume crashed for reasons I'll explain later. However, I can still see my data with slow access speeds. I have about 5TB of data collected over 20 years of computing.
Not everything is backed up, and my latest backup was like 4 months ago. Anyways, I just want to copy this 5TB into external drives or maybe internal ones before I fix the volume. So, my 1 million dollar question is : what's the best way to copy? Manually that is. I know if I use windows I'll run into so many sorts of problems like long paths/errors which might halt the process and make start all over. There must be a better way. I know a little about xcopy but I don't think it is the best. Should I use the built in back up feature in DSM OS?
The other little issue is that I must leave for a trip in few hours and come after two days. I would rather fix this problem before going but I can't. It is a family thing.
Please help !
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