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I would like to clone my pc hard drive to a Synology NAS I just purchased. I could use True Image to do a backup as it finds the drive but if I try the clone utility it gives a message that I only have one drive. How do I get True Image to see the NAS as the external drive it is so I can clone to it? Thank you!

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are you getting confused?
you don't want to clone your current drive to the NAS? .. that makes no sense...
you want to take an image of your current drive and store it on your NAS?
You should be able to do that.. I take a disk/partition backup and store it on my NAS no problem.
SO can you elaborate on your issue please?

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Gargoyle999,
With ATI you have backups that can be file backups, email backups or disk and partition backups. The latter uses sector level information to create images of entire partitions or disks for the purpose to be able to restore the image on a new disk, if need be. Disk backup + restore = clone. So a clone is a separate operation. While a disk and partition backup creates an image that is stored in in an archive file (.tib file), and that can be stored on any medium, a NAS for example, like any other file, a clone creates a disk. So cloning a disk to a NAS would be attempting to transform the NAS disk in the same disk you are cloning. That doesn't make sense.

Thank you for the replies! I've seen the error in my thinking. I thought I could use backup software to clone my disk to the drives in the NAS and then each drive would be a clone. Such that if my pc drive failed I could pop out a drive in the NAS put it in the PC and boot as if nothing changed. Guess it doesn't work that way.

So when my pc drive dies I have this disk backup on the NAS. I would buy a new drive for my pc, use the bootable media I create with True Image and that should allow me access to the NAS to recover my disk backup. Once the backup is recovered to the new disk it would then be a clone of old disk? Is that correct?

This is my first time trying to backup my entire pc and not just individual directories/files. I appreciate the help!

gargoyle999 wrote:

So when my pc drive dies I have this disk backup on the NAS. I would buy a new drive for my pc, use the bootable media I create with True Image and that should allow me access to the NAS to recover my disk backup. Once the backup is recovered to the new disk it would then be a clone of old disk? Is that correct?

That is correct. Make sure you try to boot your computer on the recovery CD and confirm you can find the NAS with the recovery CD and recover a couple of files (if it is your first time make sure you peruse the links on the left - don't recover an entire partition by mistake, or you may lose more recent content. You just need to recover a file to test the operation).