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backups, files are all named "Copy file" xxxxxx
Backing up media files from ReadyNas 422 to Macbook Air using Windows/NAS (Timestamp) has worked for more than 2 years but now when next backup completes it is continually doing full backups with fil...
My nas is now working normally after many alterations etc.. non of which I can say exactly was the culprit but the problems fixed, one may have been- Shares/(Problem share) File access/ Reset/ reset permissions. It was deffinatly a nas problem not Win/Mac.
This problem has shown it head a few times in the past 4 years but was fixed by formatting or deleating all backup files on the destination drives & making a new backup for those files.
So now when i do a backup to win/pc & Mac only takes a very short while & no "Copy File" in the Log file is incrumental, & everything is back to normal. I'm sorry for not being literate on this as i'm 80yo & grey matter is failing to remember as time goes on. thanks everyone for assistance.
Ric
The Macbook & the Windows pc destinations drives have been formatted
Macbook factory reset
Nas has been Factory reset
Windows PC changed & clean install
Files are normal after backup & only LOG FILE has copyin name
but then backups are no longer incremental
In the past deleating all the destination files fixes the incro problem but not anymore !!!
ricjohns wrote:
only LOG FILE has copy in name
FWIW, it doesn't look like it has copy in the name. It is just saying that it has copied the file.
Not sure what is going on, but it would be useful to check the file properties on both the NAS and the Mac - in particular, see if the file date is exactly the same. If the dates don't exactly match, then every file will be copied.
You might also look into switching to a backup tool that runs on the PCs - for instance FreeFileSync. That might not have the issue.
It simply appears to me to be saying Copy File 9-1-1 is the name of the folder in which the file exists on the NAS. Is that correct?
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do with the incremental backup. If you delete all files in the destination, that's going to force a complete backup, not an incremental one. If the Copy File 9-1-1/ is always a different name, then it's copying from a different folder each time, and that probably explains why you're not getting an incremental backup. The date on the files are all newer than the previous ones, though they may have different content. So, I'd look at how the files are getting to the NAS and into a new folder, not how that new folder's content is being copied to the Macbook.
My nas is now working normally after many alterations etc.. non of which I can say exactly was the culprit but the problems fixed, one may have been- Shares/(Problem share) File access/ Reset/ reset permissions. It was deffinatly a nas problem not Win/Mac.
This problem has shown it head a few times in the past 4 years but was fixed by formatting or deleating all backup files on the destination drives & making a new backup for those files.
So now when i do a backup to win/pc & Mac only takes a very short while & no "Copy File" in the Log file is incrumental, & everything is back to normal. I'm sorry for not being literate on this as i'm 80yo & grey matter is failing to remember as time goes on. thanks everyone for assistance.
RicSome time ago, I oddly had all permissions in some, but not all, shares change and had to reset them,. Sounds like you had something similar. I suggest you check other shares to make sure thay still have the right permissions.
Hasn't happened again, so I don't have enough information for Netgear to try and find the bug that triggered it. It might be related to a backup job, though. I have one main NAS but backups are spread between two. I didn't notice if the affected shares were all backed up to the same backup systems -- didn't think to check and I don't have that memorized becasue I've had to adjust it a couple times to level the loads.
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