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Backup to root directory on USB drive slows frontview (OS 6.5.0)
Ok this has an easy work around but I'm just reporting it because I've seen others complain with no resolution on this board. I had to redo my backup jobs due to a bad external disk and when I picked...
Hi dsm1212,
Which system are you using and how many backup job/s are you expecting to run? I guess your system has a lot of logs in it that's why the Frontview starts to act up at some point. Could you share us your device logs so we can check?
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Sorry, I wasn't back here for a while and didn't notice your question. Do you want me to save system logs and send them somewhere or my backup logs?
I'm not sure I see how logs have much to do with it though. The problem happens when the only thing I change is to edit the destination folder of an existing backup job to USB FAT32. If I clear the destination folder and then start the backup frontview grinds to a halt. If I change it to a sub-folder and start the backup there is no problem. It's been a few weeks, I can try it again if you want just in case something else was going on coincidentally. I did go back and try the bad case again once before the original posting.
I've got 9 backup jobs, but 3 of them only run once per week (2nd full backups to another device for some stuff a really don't want to lose). Disks are < 50% full all partitions. When I was running this backup interactively and it caused the problem, it was the only backup running.
steve
How full is the OS partition (both space and inodes)?
Right now it is 41% now for space used and inodes used is 1%. However this is a cogent question. I did have an issue with my root partition filling up (space not inodes) and it's possible it was in this same timeframe before I noticed the problem. The cause was some unifi controller software I had installed which put a couple of things on the root partition. I fixed it after a while, but maybe that was getting in the way and it was a coincidence. I guess I should try this backup test again.
steve
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