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Aspirant

Jul 05, 2016

Accessing EXT3 external harddrive connected to the front USB of the ReadyNASRNDP6310 from Windows.

For years I have been backing up my ReadyNAS Pro to external harddrives connected to the front USB port on the ReadyNAS. The external harddrives were formatted as NTFS and my backups always had error...

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BrianL2

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 06, 2016

Hi nowthennet,

I believe you can achieve this by setting Read/write and Allow guest access on the said USB_HDD_1 share in the admin page. Then make the changes to the folder structure (root/sub) using Windows File Explorer.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

nowthennet

Aspirant

Jul 08, 2016

Thank you very much for your help.

Once I have created the folder structure necessary for storing my different backups, I would like to set it to read only. My question is, will my backup work if I do that? My backup is set to perform a full backup for the initial backup and then to perform incremental backups after that. Now, it seems that the way the ReadyNAS understands incremental backups is to just compare the backup source with the backup destination and to replace backup destination files that have now changed, with the new versions of the files in the backup source....SO, when it comes to synchronise files from the source to the destination then it has to delete the old source file. Will it be able to do that if the share is set to be READ ONLY?

Thank you

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 08, 2016
If the source shares are on the NAS and the destination drive is connected to the NAS, AND you are not using a Windows, FTP, NFS, or RSYNC for the backup protocol then you should be able to set the network access to read-only - since the NAS backup job isn't using the network. You'll want to leave the file permissions alone.
- nowthennet
  Aspirant
  Jul 08, 2016
  How do you set the network access to read only?
  Thanks
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 08, 2016
    nowthennet wrote:
    
    How do you set the network access to read only?
    
    The CIFS tab for the share.