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Aspirant

Dec 29, 2015

Backup to USB Drive??

OK, I have a ReadyNas Pro2, older, but it has run flawlessly. (RAIDiator 4.2.21 ) . In the Past, we have backed it up through a workstation, which is SLOW! I would like to use the built in "Backup...

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mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Dec 29, 2015

c-snap is a snapshot of the c volume.

Your data volume is called "c" (no quotes)

The advantage of backing up a snapshot is that a snapshot is your data volume frozen in time, so you are more likely to get consistent backups. However the snapshot will only last till the next snapshot is taken on your schedule. If you make more writes to the NAS than there is snapshot space then the snapshot will be invalidated.

Which filesystem is on the USB disk?

If you download the logs (Status > Logs > Download all logs), what is the date in bios_ver.log?

militar
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2015
Interested in the answer too.

But...
I am using RAID1 (mirroring). Is there anything wrong in extracting one of the HD's and keeping it as backup, then inserting an empty HD and let it resync?
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Dec 30, 2015
  militar wrote:
  
  But...
  
  I am using RAID1 (mirroring). Is there anything wrong in extracting one of the HD's and keeping it as backup, then inserting an empty HD and let it resync?
  
  Yes, there are major problems with that. It could lead to losing your data. Don't do that. RAID is not a backup. See Preventing Catastrophic Data Loss