Any Experiences with SOS Online Backup?
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Career advice: never blow off "knowing things" as being a waste. Especially when we are talking about foundational knowledge one would expect from even the most nominal power user. This is stuff that home users need to know to use consumer NAS devices. This is stuff that affects pretty much every IT person. It's way more common to need to understand SMB than Windows itself.
The mentality that "you only know things you need to know" is not a healthy one for IT. Sure, if you want to stay where you are, that's fine, if you don't need that knowledge today you simply don't need it. But if you want to grow in the field, you need to take an interest in the field and actively want to learn new things. SMB is extremely basic knowledge. There is a reason that both Microsoft and Red Hat exams require it. This is more important than Active Directory. It impacts far more than 99% of businesses and a very large number of home users.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Career advice: never blow off "knowing things" as being a waste. Especially when we are talking about foundational knowledge one would expect from even the most nominal power user. This is stuff that home users need to know to use consumer NAS devices. This is stuff that affects pretty much every IT person. It's way more common to need to understand SMB than Windows itself.
The mentality that "you only know things you need to know" is not a healthy one for IT. Sure, if you want to stay where you are, that's fine, if you don't need that knowledge today you simply don't need it. But if you want to grow in the field, you need to take an interest in the field and actively want to learn new things. SMB is extremely basic knowledge. There is a reason that both Microsoft and Red Hat exams require it. This is more important than Active Directory. It impacts far more than 99% of businesses and a very large number of home users.
Oh I don't have that. I'm the guy who wants to know everything about everything. My point was I hadn't done research on it because I was pretty sure it was CIFS, considering that's pretty much standard for Windows, and since I'd never had a reason to dig into it for any reason, I just hadn't dug into it. I had other projects that were more directly in front of me. That was my point. It's not that I don't care, I just hadn't had a reason to up til now.
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I would put some time into it. It's very foundational and you'll be using it all the time. Even if you were on Mac or Linux systems, you still use SMB all of the time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I would put some time into it. It's very foundational and you'll be using it all the time. Even if you were on Mac or Linux systems, you still use SMB all of the time.
Ok.
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If you play with Samba on Linux, you'll probably learn more about SMB than you will using Windows because all of the assumptions are stripped away.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you play with Samba on Linux, you'll probably learn more about SMB than you will using Windows because all of the assumptions are stripped away.
I have in the past. It's just been awhile.
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@thanksaj so did you manage to find a solution for backup?
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Did you try any out to see how they work?
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Haven't done anything yet.
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So just as a follow up, I had the owncloud sync client running "as a service". So my files were indeed syncing via the built in application instead of a external protocol.
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Cool.
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I use CrashPlan, and while they do not directly support NAS, there was some information I read that you could map a drive letter from an administrator command prompt and then backup the NAS that way.
