Plugging in A USB external drive for offsite backup

[RAJOD]

I have a NAS at the office which contains many backups. To take some of the more important ones offsite I use a external USB drive. I just plug the drive into a one of the windows workstations and access the NAS share and copy the files I need. I can do this remotely too if need.

Sometimes all the computers are being used so I can't do that the transfer without having to wait.

So.. What if I were to plug the external USB drive directly into the nas? Will it auto detect it?

Its easy with windows just plug it in the drive is detected and off I go.

If someone at the office were to plug in a USB drive into the nas and I logged on to the NAS via VPN would I be able to copy the files to the usb drive from the web interface? Is it auto mounting like windows?

[crest]

I have a NAS at the office which contains many backups. To take some of the more important ones offsite I use a external USB drive. I just plug the drive into a one of the windows workstations and access the NAS share and copy the files I need. I can do this remotely too if need.

Sometimes all the computers are being used so I can't do that the transfer without having to wait.

So.. What if I were to plug the external USB drive directly into the nas? Will it auto detect it?

Its easy with windows just plug it in the drive is detected and off I go.

If someone at the office were to plug in a USB drive into the nas and I logged on to the NAS via VPN would I be able to copy the files to the usb drive from the web interface? Is it auto mounting like windows?

Hi,
in the extension Extended GUI there is already an automount feature implemented. In version 0.4.4.4 you see the mounted drive on the system status page, this view is in 0.5 not yet re-implemented.

Regards
crest

[RAJOD]

Thanks crest, I thought extended GUI did not work well with version 10.x of nas4free. Has it been tested on 10.x? I'll try it but really don't want to beta test, if the plug in play is solid like in windows for USB then yes that would be nice. For now I just plug the usb drive into a newtwork windows machine. It just works.

[Parkcomm]

Works great now

[crest]

Hi RAJOD,

Thanks crest, I thought extended GUI did not work well with version 10.x of nas4free. Has it been tested on 10.x? I'll try it but really don't want to beta test, if the plug in play is solid like in windows for USB then yes that would be nice. For now I just plug the usb drive into a newtwork windows machine. It just works.

Maybe my answer is already outdated but in the meantime version 0.5 is running without problems with 10.2.x of N4F. I will release version 0.5.1 within the next days which will show you than again mounted USB drives on the System | Status page ...

@Parkcomm: thanks for reporting

Regards
crest

[crest]

Thanks crest, I thought extended GUI did not work well with version 10.x of nas4free. Has it been tested on 10.x? I'll try it but really don't want to beta test, if the plug in play is solid like in windows for USB then yes that would be nice. For now I just plug the usb drive into a newtwork windows machine. It just works.

The new release (v0.5.1) => [EXTENSION] Extended GUI now shows all USB devices as well as CD/DVDs on STATUS | SYSTEM page.