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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...
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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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
Good day HeathM,
Thank you for the feedback.
If your issue is now resolved, we encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accept as Solution” or post what resolved it and mark it as solution so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution.
The Netgear community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!
Regards,
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