ReadyNAS 314 nfs issue

Hi. I wanted to give an update on my situation. I'm still waiting for my off-site backup to complete before doing anything irreversible like a factory reset, but in the mean time, I took a look at my backups. I noticed that there was a directory being backed up that contained a pretty epic number of small files (About 14k) that changed around a lot. I thought that maybe such a large number of small files (and, because of the way the backup works, so many hardlinks) might be causing a metadata issue on the filesystem, so I excluded that directory tree from my backup.

The ReadyNAS was problem-free for twelve days before the next incident. So while my problem isn't solved, it's looking more and more to me like the problem is something specific to what happens during the backup.

Since turning off snapshots didn't seem to help, my next plan is to switch to using btrfs snapshots for my backups instead of rsnapshot's method of hard links and see what happens.

If I haven't figured out a proper solution by the time the offsite backup finishes, I still plan to just wipe the thing and start over, but obviously I'd rather figure out why this is happening and have some assurance that it won't just start happening again after I reset.