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Pihro
Jan 27, 2014Aspirant
External Backup Drive Working But Not Recognized?
We have 2 3TB WD External USB drives we use for backup on our ReadyNAS 312. When the drives are using 4096 bytes per sector it can cause backup problems with Windows 7 Backup, so we keep them formatte...
Pihro
Jan 30, 2014Aspirant
Ki-Adi-Mundi wrote: interesting, the message means it can't be recognized by the NAS, so it will not be mounted, backups shouldn't work. Did I miss sth ? can you show me cmd "mount" in your nas ?
I'm not sure what you are asking for, but I can give you the logs here:
System: External storage device 'WDC WD30EZRX-00D8PB0' connected, but could not find a known filesystem on it.
System: External storage device connected
And so far I haven't had a single backup problem.
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