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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
It looks like the usb drive is not mounted to the system. If the mount is ready, a volume will appear automatically.
glenschaefer
Oct 26, 2017Aspirant
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.
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