Talk:Backup the Synology Server to an external hard disk connected to the Synology Server

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Would be helpful to know whether the backup is a straight copy requiring the same amount of space or a compressed copy.

Would be helpful to link to a page helping you choose which backup solution to choose, and if external disk, how to size it.

http://www.synology.com/enu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=5923&p=27075&hilit=volume1+restore#p27075 says to forget about the filemanager for restoring and just ssh in and do the following: 

mkdir /volume1/tmp/ ;
cp -R /volumeUSB1/usbbackup/* /volume1/tmp/
and finally "mv" the various folders to their proper locations under my new /volume1".

If you are competent this will take you fewer steps than using Filemanager.

Sadly busybox cp does not support "cp -u" so this command can't be made to resume if it gets interrupted.

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