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Aspirant

Dec 04, 2015

backup to FAT32 fails due to bad characters in file names

I'm trying to backup my ReadNAS to an external USB disk with FAT32 (VFAT) filesystem. The backup fails because some of the files have names with characters that aren't supported in FAT32. Is there ...

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StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Dec 04, 2015

I don't own a Mac, so my knowledge here is second-hand.

But I believe you will need to install an NTFS toolkit on the Mac. Paragon sells one for $20 (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/features.html)

bshannon

Aspirant

Dec 04, 2015

I guess that means there's no way to format the disk using the ReadyNAS?

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 04, 2015
You can format internal drives. I don't think you can format USB drives as NTFS.
- ukbobboy
  Luminary
  Dec 10, 2015
  Hi StephenB
  
  As I've said, I have used external USB drives in the past and as long as windows can see those drives then they can be formatted in NTFS.
  
  However, as BShannon does not have access to a windows PC then there's not much that can be done.
  
  UK Bob
  - bshannon
    Aspirant
    Dec 10, 2015
    I figured out how to get ReadyNAS to format the drive as ext4, which then worked fine for backups.