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Ready NAS 212 and Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
Hello Everyone, I am running Windows 10 64bit Firmware: 6.10.5. Hotfix 1 I have a Netgear Ready NAS 212 and want to backup my files from a LaCie RAID USB storage device. I am using Acro...
Hi Stephen,
I am backing up a folder from the LaCie drive. The folder has many subfolders.
The PC is using Ethernet.
No, I can back up from the internal PC drives with no problem. I can even back up between two external hard drives, but they are USB connected, not on the network.
I have AV on my PC (Acronis) and on the NAS.
I don't know the specific drives on the NAS but they were propper NAS hard drives, red, from Western Digital. Set in Raid1.
Just a guess, but try turing off "strict sync" on the share to which you are backing up.
Thanks Sandshark,
I have given it a go. Not sure if that will work as its still doing the backup, but we will see.
Hi Sandshark. No, that hasn't worked. Should I switch it back on?
RacingTog wrote:
I don't know the specific drives on the NAS but they were proper NAS hard drives, red, from Western Digital.
Unfortunately WD slipped some SMR drives into the Red line. Those don't perform well in OS-6 ReadyNAS, and write performance can be very variable (and very slow) with these disks. Please check, and see if you are using one of these models.
The SMR models are
- WD20EFAX
- WD30EFAX
- WD40EFAX
- WD60EFAX
Note the A doesn't mean SMR - it's just highlighted to distinguish these particular disks from the older EFRX - which are all CMR
RacingTog wrote:
Hi Sandshark. No, that hasn't worked. Should I switch it back on?
Totally up to you.
https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/network_administration_guides/using_samba_book/ch08_06_16.html wrote:
This share-level option determines whether Samba honors all requests to perform a disk sync when requested to do so by a client. Many clients request a disk sync when they are really just trying to flush data to their own open files. As a result, this can substantially slow a Samba server down.
Leaving it off can greatly improve performance for some applications. Ignoring the disk sync requested by the clients has little downside.
Maybe leave it off for a while, and see if you run into any issues.
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