Seeking verification of 3 core requirement to upgrade to 314

mdgm wrote:
1) It will power on when power is restored. If connected to a UPS it may not power on though.. 2) Yes, as Ixa mentioned above. 3) I think this should be possible on the 314. It may require some configuration changes on your PC and/or NAS. Try running a backup and if you get an error let us know what it is and we can go from there.

Thanks for that. 2 out of three cleared up and one to go.

I've been doing a little more research on the system image backup and it appears that this is a known issue.

The error I get when trying to create a system image backup under Windows 8 is ...
"The version does not support this version of the file format (0xC03A0005)".


It appears that this relates to "Sparse file system", SMB versions and "strict allocate = yes" in the SMB config file etc.
All of which means absolutely nothing to a mere mortal like me! I just want an out of box solution that works.

I did find a Netgear Kb this morning which seems highly relevant and does inspire a degree of confidence wrt an upgrade to the 314 ...
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24811/~/windows-backup-to-readynas-running-4.1.x-fails

To nail it, perhaps I should post separately to ask if anyone is getting Win8 System image backup to work on a 314 without any techno twiddling!

Regards
Alan Smith.