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Backup ALL local shares to USB drive
Hi, I just wondered how to use USB as a Backup destination for RN 102, because it will always copy data from inside the share to the root of the USB device, and that for each share, mixing up the sha...
I just filled a 4TB USB3 drive with what was supposed to be a backup of a 1.3TB volume, and it wasn't done. Then I discovered this thread.
This was on an OS6.1.7 RND314 w/four, 3T disks.
I agree that it's broken that backing up the entire volume /data to an external USB drive produces almost an order of magnitude more data than what appears on the volume itself. It certainly doesn't work as I was lead to expect by the documentation. Who do we complain to at NetGear about this?
I am now about to try Pixel8's suggestion.
This was on an OS6.1.7 RND314 w/four, 3T disks.
I agree that it's broken that backing up the entire volume /data to an external USB drive produces almost an order of magnitude more data than what appears on the volume itself. It certainly doesn't work as I was lead to expect by the documentation. Who do we complain to at NetGear about this?
I am now about to try Pixel8's suggestion.
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