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After backup: Destination is read-only?
I'm working on implementing a proper backup procedure as most experts on this forum recommend. But when trying to backup a large amount of data, I keep getting this error message: Backup: Error bac...
Have been looking for a solution for this problem for a long time, but never managed to find the root cause.
In the end, I decided to remove the offending subdirectory that contained a file backup of a Windows system. This solved the problem with the backup procedure.
Have narrowed it down to my "Documents" share that is causing the problem. All the other shares backup without issues. Will try to narrow it down further in the coming period.
If I connect the disk to the PC and look for files and dirs with read-only attribute set, it finds nothing. Strange. The NAS just told me there is a read-only problem.
If I check for dirty bit, it tells me the disk is clean.
If I do a check disk on the drive, it tells me that no problems were found.
If I connect the disk to the PC and look for files and dirs with read-only attribute set, it finds nothing. Strange. The NAS just told me there is a read-only problem.
F:\>dir /A:R /R *.*
De volumenaam van station F is My Disk
Het volumenummer is XXXC-487P
Map van F:\
Het bestand is niet gevonden (= file not found)
If I check for dirty bit, it tells me the disk is clean.
F:\>fsutil dirty query f:
Volume - f: is schoon (= f: is NOT dirty)
If I do a check disk on the drive, it tells me that no problems were found.
Have been looking for a solution for this problem for a long time, but never managed to find the root cause.
In the end, I decided to remove the offending subdirectory that contained a file backup of a Windows system. This solved the problem with the backup procedure.
Sadly, I wish that was the case for our customers! We've now tried reformatting the backup drives as NTFS and HFS+ but the problem always comes back at some point.
Netgear still have problems using USB external drives and backup, which after nearly 2 years, needs fixing.
The configuration is cumbersome, but I managed to configure backup of volume:data to USB right USB to dir /data.
Plans are for me to build a backup scenario with 2 external drives around that.
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