Free software for backing up an attached network drive

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Published on 2011-01-17T17:35:23Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 17:55 UTC
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My wireless router comes with a USB connector which allows me to plug an external hard drive in and it'll act as a Network Attached Storage. The problem is that I want to backup this hard-drive to the external drive of another computer so that if the NAS drive fails, I don't lose everything.

However, Windows 7 Backup refuses to include the NAS as a location to backup. I can't fool it by mapping it to a drive letter either. Google presents lots of pages on how to backup files to a NAS, but not the other way around.

Can anyone advise me on free software which can do incremental backups of a NAS drive to an external drive attached the computer it is running on? I'm aware of this question but the top answers have one or more of the following issues:

  1. They aren't free.
  2. The free version cannot backup a NAS.
  3. They cannot do incremental backups.
  4. They're just a script and therefore have limited other functionality (eg. disk space management, scheduling, compression, etc.etc.)

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