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glenschaefer
Oct 25, 2017Aspirant
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 util...
Icewaterhot
Oct 26, 2017NETGEAR Employee
HI,
You use the NAS UI format USB storage disk is nomarl?
- glenschaeferOct 26, 2017Aspirant
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
- StephenBOct 26, 2017Guru - Experienced User
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?
- glenschaeferOct 26, 2017Aspirant
No the data folder I am backing up is only 232Gb so far. I tried NTFS yesterday with the same result so it doesn't seem to make any difference, have tried the native format, FAT32 and NTFS
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