JockeSve  Ally Member

As they state it's discontinued my guess is never... You should be able to connect to Your NAS with https://findme.zyxel.com or directly with it's IP address. I.e http://192.168.1.100/ (or whatever IP Your NAS has).

BTW! In addition to above: Account(s) used for mounting source and target has admin rights (RWX) to be able to perform full mirror copy including deletion of removed (source) files on target drive.

Unless You have files open for writing the "open" files shouldn't be an issue (never were for me at least). The main difference I see is that I usually mount drives and use drive letters (Q:, V:, ...) instead of '\\<server>\Share'. Below a snip of one of my backup scripts I run manually. Note! 'External01' is an external…

You might try installing with Admin priviledges.

Robocopy is built in "all" Windows versions AFAIK. It's an extended version of standard 'COPY' command, with options for retry, logging, date management etc, etc, ... Easiest way to find out more is just to run 'ROBOCOPY /?|more' at CMD line, or just google for Rocopy examples. 

You should find that in 'Backup Planner' tool. But as said, I never used/tested it. I used a simple RoboCopy script to copy/sync everything preserving all time and date-stamps on both folders and files as that was really important on several shares. Like: ROBOCOPY <SRC> <TGT> /E /MIR /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:DAT /MT:8 /NP

https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/9094/nas-to-nas-synchronization Or maybe (I never tried this!) use the built in sync function?

I'm not sure that's the correct or even possible way... (BTW: RoboCopy should be available on all Win10 releases as command-line tool.) I used an external USB drive as temp. storage; 1. Backup to external drive with RoboCopy 2. Swap disk 3. Restore back from USB with RoboCopy

If for any help; this is how the command-line looks. (prerequisites that Source is mounted as "S:" and Target is mounted as "T:" ROBOCOPY S:\ T:\ /E /MIR /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:DAT /MT:8 /NP /LOG:SyncLog.txt

When I had to do similar disk-swap before I bought the current one I replicated the old drives to temp. storage (External USB) with a pretty simple RoboCopy script so all time/date stamps were preserved. No additional SW required but it as quite slow process . On the other hand it' all free and You can customize copy/sync…

That's how I mount shares (and keep persistent) regardless OS: \\<IP>\<SHARE>

Windows 10 doesn't support SMB v1 anymore for security reasons. You can (but shouldn't!) enable it by some hack's. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/9ed78c/how_dangerous_is_it_for_a_home_user_to_reenable/ https://www.tenforums.com/network-sharing/165371-need-smb-v1-enabled-my-nas-risks-workarounds.html

For external backup I bought cheap(ish) 6TB USB3 disk that is stored in basement. Yes, replacing disks one by one can be done without losing data. But again, we aware, the process isn't fast. 

External backup is always to recommend! When backup done, You can replace disks one by one and let the RAID-set rebuild before replacing next disk. Did that a while back (from 2TB to 4TB disks) and yes, rebuild may take some time so be really patient! BTW: I bought 4 x WD Red NAS Hard Drive WD40EFAX Got great price, and…

Is there still a noticeable (or even measurable) difference between Samba and NFS with "modern" hardware? I really can't see any real difference if copying a movie (5-8 GB) to or from NFS or SMB with my Raspi 4B's (Raspberry PI OS). Yes, I know that was a difference earlier but as both HW (including network) and protocol…