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Matthias1111
Aspirant
Jan 14, 2022

Backup is not incremental but always a full backup

Hi,  I have the issue, that my ReadyNAS 104 (v6.10.6) does always perform a full backup to remote destination ("Windows/NAS (Timestamp"). Source is a share on the NAS. I can see in the log that alwa...
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Matthias1111
Aspirant
Jan 14, 2022

Sure. The timestamp is the same. I also tried (for testing purpose) the windows desktop program FreeFileSync for the same source and destination: That works as expected. 

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 14, 2022

How is the destination disk formatted?

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    Matthias1111
    Aspirant
    Jan 15, 2022

    For the internal storage of the FritzBox 6660 Router, I don't know. Maybe Ext-x. The external USB-HDD connected to the router FritzBox 7490 the filesystem is NTFS.

     

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      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jan 15, 2022
      Matthias1111 wrote:

      For the internal storage of the FritzBox 6660 Router, I don't know. Maybe Ext-x. The external USB-HDD connected to the router FritzBox 7490 the filesystem is NTFS.

       

      Thx.  FAT32 has 2-second timestamp granularity - which could have resulted in this symptom.  But NTFS has 100 ns granularity, so timestamp granularity wouldn't account for it.

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