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Neil122
Sep 08, 2016Follower
Backing up Readynas RN10400
I have just bought an hard drive dock the problem I'm having is I take my hard drive out of my readynas to backup my movies and some files and I plug it into my hard drive dock and it can't find the d...
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 08, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
The ReadyNAS runs Linux. It uses mdadm software RAID and the BTRFS filesystem. Your Windows PC can't read the BTRFS filesystem natively.
So the best way is to backup the data over your network as shown in the ReadyNAS Backup FAQ
The error about used disks is because the NAS has found that you've put disks with data in the NAS rather than blank unpartitioned disks. The NAS needs to wipe disks taken from your PC to be able to use them.
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