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HeathM
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Oct 22, 2016
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Backing up a partition on an external USB WD My Book to ReadyNAS 202

I am attempting to set up a back schedule from a partition on a 3TB external WD My book to a chosen share on ReadyNAS 202.  Every time I attempt to complete the Remote system section I get the same e...
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    HeathM
    Oct 26, 2016

     

    Afraid I've only just been able to look at this again after investigating NFS protocols and soon decided this was not the best approach for what I want.  Anyway I now understand how this works, so created a fresh backup and this time put the share name only without the full path using just the Windows NAS/timestamp option, entered Login and password and tested the connection, this time it was successful, so I've managed to do a full test of a backup.  The same also true for local to remote back up from ReadyNAS to FREENAS, so I am very happy I can now achieve all the backup options I need.

     

    Thanks for your help

     

    Heath

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