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Backup to USB drive fails
I have tried to use a Powered Seagate USB drive (Mystorage 3.0) to backup the data folders on our Netgear Readynas 314. The external backup drive has been cleanly formatted with Seagate's Format utility as FAT32.
The drive initially displays as a volume in the ReadyNAS and I setup a backup and click start. After 5-10 mins it fails saying unable to create files/folders on drive. Then the drive disappears as a volume until I reboot the NAS drive.
We have the latest bios and the Seagate external drive works fine on several laptops and PC's.
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HI,
You use the NAS UI format USB storage disk is nomarl?
i tried both.
First i formatted it with native EXT24 format as recommended and it kept dissappearing as a volume. then i formatted using Seagte's own format tool as FAT32.Same result.
PS: The external Seagate USB drive works fine on several Linux/Windows 10 PC's
glenschaefer wrote:
then i formatted using Seagte's own format tool as FAT32.
FAT32 can't handle large file sizes - is it possible that you are hitting that limit?
It looks like the usb drive is not mounted to the system. If the mount is ready, a volume will appear automatically.
It appears as a volume after rebooting the NAS Drive, to the point of starting the backup and selecting it as the location, then the backup commences but fails saying can't write files/folders to disk. Then it gets unmounted.
You can open up the RAIDar download logs to see what's going on and what causes failure.
ps:what is your firmware version?
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