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How to back up RN104 to Windows HDD.
HI.
After recent crash of the RN104, for which Netgear support kindly recovered the data ( thanks again) I have decided to backup my 4x4TB RN104 to external HDD.
Decided to keep this external HDD connected to my server, not to NAS directly.
My NAS has one volume and number of shared folder in it.
When creating the backup job, what is the recommendation on choosing the source of my backup. Obviously i would like to back up all my shared folders , but without backing up snapshots , as I got a feeling they are redundant to the backup and only help if i deleted something accidently.
1) So shall I create one backup job backing up my whole volume or
2) Shall I create number of jobs, each for one of my shared folders?
If I choose option 2 , shall I run all my backups (I choose everyday) on the same hour? Will there be a clash between these backup jobs starting simultaneously?
3) Or maybe I shopuld back up only snapshots? In manual Netgear is saying:"The backup schedule is offset by five minutes from the hour to allow you to schedule snapshots on the hour (snapshots are almost instantaneous) and perform backups of those snapshots."
Will baking up only snapshots, protect all my data? Shall I back up snapshots if I do not care about files I have manually deleted?
Thanks
Sebastian
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I personally prefer one backup job per share, though you can back up the volume if you prefer. The backups are queued, so scheduling them all at the same start time is not a problem.
Either way you wouldn't be backing up snapshots (and despite the manual, back up jobs don't give you a way to specify snaphots).
Hi again.
Started to play with backups ( some spare time ) and face situation when regardles of destination ( Main C drive of computer on my local network ) or external USB drive connected to computer on the network Backup starts , works for few minutes and stops telling:
Backup Status: Fail: destination is read-only or files/folders could not be created. Check if these files or folders meet the destination file system limitation.
Cannot create file '/job_002/Pictures/Thumbs.db' (error: Permission denied)!
Cannot create file '/job_002/Pictures/Zd/2015-10-30 Halloween/DSC_7520.JPG' (error: Input/output error)!
Cannot create file '/job_002/Pictures/Zd/2015-10-30 Halloween/DSC_7521.JPG' (error: Input/output error)!
and so onDo you guys have any idea what is going on?
Bear in mind that approx 4GB of backup , out of 500GB is done correctly
Sebastian
Hi SebastianC,
Check this ReadyNAS backup article and let me know if it helps you with your backup job problem.
Kind regards,
BrianL
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