How to Backup and Restore from NAS with AOMEI Backupper

Last Updated: January 31, 2021

The full name of NAS is network attached storage, which is a device provides its users with great convenience. It is often used as file share device by small business users that can not bear the expensive price of SAN and want to reduce backup and restoring cost.

NAS backup means backup your PCs and Servers (such as system, partition or the entire disk) to a NAS device. It’s a convenient operation which permits user to store the data image files to network storage. By doing so, all the users who have the access to the network segment could share and restore that image files.

Method 1

Method 1 of 2:
Backup to NAS with AOMEI Backupper

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Run AOMEI Backupper, to backup to NAS, we need to select our NAS device as the destination first. Click the "Step2" as the following picture:
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In the pop-up window, click "Share/NAS Device" from the left-bottom panel.

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3
Add our NAS device to AOMEI Backupper. Click "Add share or NAS device" button in the lower-left corner.
4
Enter the IP address of your NAS. You can also input a display name for this NAS device.
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Now you can find the destination folder in the right-hand side column. Check it and then click OK at the bottom to start the back-upping process.

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Method 2

Method 2 of 2:
Restore from NAS with AOMEI Backupper

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First we need to locate the backup image by clicking on “Restore” button in the main interface, select the image shown in the list box then click Next.
2
Choose a backup point to restore.
3
Select a destination partition to restore, then click “Next” to commit.

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