Safepoint question

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So I’ve got my 1TB mybook running and *almost* everything seems to be working (itunes server is borked, but that’s probably as much apples fault as wd … another reason to stay away from apple products.  w/dlna I don’t need the itunes server anyway).  The last thing I want to do is back the mbl up to a couple of external drives that i keep off-site, and then rotate bringing them home to do incremental backups off the mbl.  it sounds like safepoint can manage this - each backup will be a seperate job, and i can manually update the backups when i plug bring them home.  what i’m wondering is, is the backup mountable and readable under windows, so i can go and grab individual files if i want, or restore it to a non wd drive by just doing a straight windows copy, or is the backup in some format that can only be read by doing a safepoint restore?

thanks in advance,

joe

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Hi, the safepoint backup will create a folder that will store all of the files in the MBL, so yes, you can just explore that folder and see the files.

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Alucardx23 wrote:

Hi, the safepoint backup will create a folder that will store all of the files in the MBL, so yes, you can just explore that folder and see the files.

excellent, thanks, i’ll give it a try tonight.  wonder how long it will take to back up ~370MB across ethernet to a usb-attached drive on my desktop?!

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hmm, i may have accepted the solution too soon … my backup drive is an external usb-attached drive, connected to my pc.  when i try to create a safepoint on it i get an error message from the dashboard saying it can’t access the share.  is it not possible to create a safepoint this way?

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You should be able to make the safepoint to an external USB memory, check the link below to review the steps, also try using another USB memory.

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705065.pdf#page=92

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never mind, i have a usb port on my router, when i attached the usb drive to that the mbl found it no problem.  this is a better solution anyway since i don’t have to leave my pc on during the backup.  i noticed some other flakiness w/the safepoint creation - it took a couple of tries for it to complete w/out error - but that may have been an issue w/the router and not the mbl.