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Does a NAS drive create backup images?

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Bowdon:
With my recent battles with windows 10 system restore I'm looking at ways to create backups so I can restore them if I get any problems.

I was thinking of getting a NAS drive, then I wondered.. will the nas drive allow me to take backup images of the computer?

Then I wondered is it doing the same process as disk imaging programs like Macrium ?

Does the nas have a built in disk imaging program?

I'm trying to figure if I need both a nas and a disk imaging program or does the nas do it all?

Chunkers:
I have Synology NASes, its easy to automatically schedule backups of data from folders or locations on your PC or even sync folders together between PC and NAS but I don't know of a way to regularly image an entire disk to the NAS.

I have used clonezilla to backup images of disks before and it works well and I believe you can mount network drives and use them as storage, haven't tried this though

Chunks

parkdale:
I have used and setup various data backup solutions, Synology is by far the easiest to get setup.
Yes you can use network drives with the Pro versions of Windows (Easy) and Home. You can use cloud station for Windows all versions. 
Netgear versions were the worst!

tickmike:
When my daughter went to uni I built a automatic back up system that would back her laptop up to a home based back up server (or NAS) each day, it is now used also to back up my wife's and my laptops/desktops.
I used what I had at the time (it is still in use now, years later  ;D ) a old desktop computer, I used a stripped down version of PCLinuxOS on a SD card for it's operating system with 2 x 2Tb hard storage drives (more can be added) with a Raid card.
LuckyBackup software is the hart of the system.
http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/luckybackup/
It is so easy to knock one up yourself.

Chunkers:
Whilst I am a big fan of Synology NASes, I own two, they are very expensive.  If you don't require the resilience of a professionally built NAS but would still like a Synology-clone running the same OS (DSM on top of Linux) then Xpenology is an option, especially is you have an old PC lying around ... it works great but you need to be moderately geeky to get it all working.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axbwf5qNRVs[/youtube]

For something like backups only might be a cheap(er) solution.  I am not sure there is a fully automated disk cloning to lan storage solution, a bit of manual intervention might be required.

Cheers

Chunks

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