USB backup - how does it work?

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud Mirror
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I would like to take my 4TB My Book (MB) and use it as a backup for my 8TB MCM.  I currently have the MCM in JBOD configuration so when I go beyond 4TB of data I can just start using drive2 as another primary drive.

The manual is lacking in its explanation of how the USB backup works.

  1.  Can you schedule the USB backup to run everyday at a specific time?

  2.   Will the backup just add new files with subsequent runs or is it a full backup every time?

  3.  If I delete a file on the MCM and run a subsequent backup will the job delete the file from the USB drive?

Inquiring minds want to know…

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  1. Yes.

  2. It’s incremental.

  3. No.

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@Trancer.

You told, that scheduled Backups to USB can be done with MyCloud Mirror.

Could you please tell me, how to do that? in my dashboard, i can´t find a option like that.

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A bunch of us have been unable to get the backup-to-USB from MyCloudMirror working. If you are successful, would you please post what you did back here.  Many thanks.