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Backup of RN516 to External HDD EXT4 or NTFS
My readynas 516 has NFS enabled as all my files are large 5-35GB movie files when configuring the backup in NAS frontview the suggested format is EXT4 will this not cause a problem if i ever need to ...
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Hi pgjscottieuk,
NFS is a file sharing protocol and NTFS is a file system.
Here is a link describing file sharing protocols supported by the ReadyNAS.
What file-sharing protocols are supported by ReadyNAS OS 6 storage system?
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Regards,Your reply didn't really answer my question but perhaps i had not asked it in the correcy way
The Qustion was in format should the Backup drive be in
1, I did not know what format my 516 shipped to me in i assumed it was in NTFS the suggested backup format is EXT4 my concern was that having done what was recommended in the event of the backup being required and dragged back to the Nas would i have a problem accessing it as i had been doing
2,The conclusion i came to was Formats are like houses you can put info inside take it out and put it in a new house
The answer to this was i formatted the Back up drive to EXT4 in a Mac envioroment using Paragon ExtFS for Mac
And of course the furniture you put in a house your files im my case Large MKV,M4V,MP4 dont mind where they are
The ReadyNAS units are linux based and therefore do not do NTFS. NTFS is a Microsoft file system used by Windows (you can load apps to mount those drives in MAC/Linux)
The Readynas uses an EXT4 format but please remember since the unit uses RAID, the drives cannot simply be removed from the NAS and connected to your MAC. That seems to be a falacy many folks have.
However you are right, the system will translate between file systems and you can mix and match as you move files across "houses". As long as you are not using a FAT file system, then you will be able to store those larger files with no issues.
funglenn wrote:
The Readynas uses an EXT4 format
The internal drives in the RN516 use the BTRFS file system, not EXT4.
A USB backup drive can be formatted as BTRFS, FAT32, NTFS or EXT4 (http://kb.netgear.com/7009/ReadyNAS-OS-6-USB-Port-use?cid=wmt_netgear_organic)
I recommend using a format that you can read on other systems you have. FAT32 has a file size limit of 2 GB, so it is probably not the best choice. You can connect the USB drive to a PC (windows or OSX) instead of directly to the NAS, and back up the NAS over the network. If you have a mac, that allows you to use any OSX format, and on both types of PCs allows you to encrypt the backup disks.
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