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Frontview USB Backup Not Working!
Losing patience here...
Plugged a brand new Silicon Power 1TB USB 3.0 drive into my new NV+ v2 and configured a simple backup drive per instructions, and was getting AppleDouble filename errors which aborted the backups. So, I reformatted the drive using OSX DiskUtility, assuming the new drive came formatted for PC, and now can't even start a backup! When I plug the drive directly into my Mac, I can read and write without issues.
What's the problem here? Very frustrated and considering returning the product as it does not provide this feature as advertised and reason I bought it/
Thanks for any help.
Plugged a brand new Silicon Power 1TB USB 3.0 drive into my new NV+ v2 and configured a simple backup drive per instructions, and was getting AppleDouble filename errors which aborted the backups. So, I reformatted the drive using OSX DiskUtility, assuming the new drive came formatted for PC, and now can't even start a backup! When I plug the drive directly into my Mac, I can read and write without issues.
What's the problem here? Very frustrated and considering returning the product as it does not provide this feature as advertised and reason I bought it/
Thanks for any help.
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- USB disk and flash drives that you connect to your ReadyNAS system must use the ext fat32 or ntfs file system, what did you have the drive formatted with before you formatted it with OSX DiskUtility ?
- Not sure. Whatever Silicon Power delivers with. But that format was failing backups with above described errors. Any recommendations?
Thanks!
g262 - Try formatting it to NTFS or EXT file system.
Edit it could be that the drive was formated to fat32 and that could be why you was getting errors with the file names. - Thanks Herbieo... I don't see those format options in Disk Utility... is there a tool you can recommend?
- Not being a mac user i cant help you there but i am sure someone on the forum will see this post and give you some advice how you can do this, unless you can get access to a windows or linux system to format your USB drive.
Edit: i think ext file system as less problems with invalid characters in file names so ext may be the best option,
i know with FAT32 and NTFS file and directory names may not contain the characters " / \ * ? < > | : - Dunno if it runs on a Mac platform, but I formatted my external USB drive as EXT2 by booting my PC to a Puppy Linux cd, then formatting the USB drive. Small download--easy to use.
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