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<blockquote data-quote="Tony" data-source="post: 155343" data-attributes="member: 1">How hard could it possibly be to make a backup of all of your files and a system image... So I have finally setup a Network Storage where I can hold all of my files and my backups of all of my computers so that I don't have to keep files on them. So I decided today that I would go ahead and get the full backup setup and done and that is just what I did. As it was running, it took forever to get the file system done for the first time which I knew would happen, but then it tried to do the System Image and failed every single time. I ended up creating another partition on the NAS just for the system image thinking maybe it just didn't like the space available on that other partition. I started the backup and as soon as it started creating it, it would fail. So finally I went and grabbed an old SSHD that I took out of my laptop when I put the SSD in it and put that in my desktop and started the backup again, and guess what.... It actually completed...I started doing some research on this issue and it turns out, if you want to do a backup of your file system, you can do it on a NAS and you can have a username and password protecting it. But if you want to create a system image, it can NOT have a username and password for some stupid reason. Randy, do you have any idea why it is done this way and a solution so that I can create an image on my NAS directly? I know you can only have one, and one is all you need and I have it, but I still have to do all of this on multiple other computers and I really don't want to have to backup the files to the NAS and the image to a separate disk and then move it to the drive...&nbsp; So if you have a solution, let me know. So yea, that is pretty much what I have been up to today... My head hurts now...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony, post: 155343, member: 1"] How hard could it possibly be to make a backup of all of your files and a system image... So I have finally setup a Network Storage where I can hold all of my files and my backups of all of my computers so that I don't have to keep files on them. So I decided today that I would go ahead and get the full backup setup and done and that is just what I did. As it was running, it took forever to get the file system done for the first time which I knew would happen, but then it tried to do the System Image and failed every single time. I ended up creating another partition on the NAS just for the system image thinking maybe it just didn't like the space available on that other partition. I started the backup and as soon as it started creating it, it would fail. So finally I went and grabbed an old SSHD that I took out of my laptop when I put the SSD in it and put that in my desktop and started the backup again, and guess what.... It actually completed... I started doing some research on this issue and it turns out, if you want to do a backup of your file system, you can do it on a NAS and you can have a username and password protecting it. But if you want to create a system image, it can NOT have a username and password for some stupid reason. Randy, do you have any idea why it is done this way and a solution so that I can create an image on my NAS directly? I know you can only have one, and one is all you need and I have it, but I still have to do all of this on multiple other computers and I really don't want to have to backup the files to the NAS and the image to a separate disk and then move it to the drive... So if you have a solution, let me know. So yea, that is pretty much what I have been up to today... My head hurts now... [/QUOTE]

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