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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...
So Pixel8's suggestion worked for me. For the amount of data copied, it proceeded at about 20% of the speed of the direct copy to the USB3 drive.
But I still wound up with a data expansion. The system overview page says that my main volume contains 1.29TB of 7.85TB. But my backup drive, with one full, initial backup on it, has 2.58TB of 3.58TB.
I assume the rest came from the snapshots. So before my next backup run I'll follow StephenB's suggestion and delete most of those and see what happens.
But I still wound up with a data expansion. The system overview page says that my main volume contains 1.29TB of 7.85TB. But my backup drive, with one full, initial backup on it, has 2.58TB of 3.58TB.
I assume the rest came from the snapshots. So before my next backup run I'll follow StephenB's suggestion and delete most of those and see what happens.
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