On 9 Feb at 23:52, Jeremy Nicoll - freelists iyo only <jn.flists.73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can't you keep older files, backups, whatever on slower (NAS) drives? I have recently started to use a fully Raid enabled NAS drive for backup. Then yesterday I got reports that the backup could not proceed as the destination file was locked. Nothing I could do unlocked it. So I had to rename the old back up (yes, even though it was 'locked') and start a new one taking a mere 10 hours. No problem in doing this but it means that I cannot rely on accessing the old NAS file. My impression of this NAS box is that it is really rather fast. It accepted around 270 G in about 10 hours, which I calculate to be around 7.5 Mbytes per second, including the RAID storage. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support