From: lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 23 Jun, Lars Poulsen  wrote:   
   >> o ... if this is really about one of those "hardswired CIFS"type of   
   >> NAS, what is the best method?   
      
   On 2025-06-23, Brian Howlett  wrote:   
   > It's a Synology DS115J box - the backups of my other devices go to 2   
   > external USB drives which are formatted to EXT4.   
   >   
   > I can access it via a browser, and it does allow me to install software on   
   > it, so I will investigate if there is anything available that will allow   
   > me to back up my Pi5 from that end.   
      
   I looked it up. It seems to be an ARM CPU in an enclosure that has only room   
   for one drive. For a NAS, I would be looking for an enclosure that could   
   hold 4 drives, but those are getting rarer. The secondhand market has   
   plenty of small form factor desktops with low-end x86 or AMD64   
   processors and room for 2 drives for less than what this costs.   
      
   If you need to put the drives externally in a stack of USB enclosures,   
   you might as well use an RPI4 in a CanoKit box.   
      
   I don't get the attraction of this type of device.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)