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Upgrading my readynas
I've had my ReadyNAS for ages. I recently tried to swap out my drives to upgrade and it all failed. Luckily, there were some awesome people on here to help me out. After fixing everything I w...
Esoteric wrote:
When I do a backup to a seperate external drive, it says it fails to backup any of my .dmg files (that are old programs for Mac). It will back up everything else.
That should be working. How is the external drive formatted?
I formatted it to FAT32 using Disk Utility on my Mac.
Esoteric wrote:
I formatted it to FAT32 using Disk Utility on my Mac.
That likely has something to do with it.
FAT32 has a file size limit (either 2 GB or 4 GB depending on the application). dmg files also can have "forks" (alternative data streams), and FAT32 can't handle them either.
If you don't actually need the files, you could delete them. Or maybe try zipping them - likely the zip file can be backed up.
StephenBthanks for the info. I may zip them.
Is there a better format so I can read and write from it using my Mac? That's why I originally chose FAT32.
Esoteric wrote:
Is there a better format so I can read and write from it using my Mac? That's why I originally chose FAT32.
Not for native read+write. I generally recommend NTFS. You can read on the Mac by default, and there are a couple of options for enable writing. https://www.technology.org/2019/08/26/how-to-enable-ntfs-write-support-on-mac/
I don't own a Mac though, so I don't have any first hand experience with the NTFS options.
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