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pgjscottieuk
Feb 14, 2017Guide
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 ...
- Feb 22, 2017
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FramerV
Feb 18, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
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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FramerV
Feb 22, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi pgjscottieuk,
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