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SebastianC's avatar
SebastianC
Aspirant
Mar 19, 2016

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 c...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Mar 19, 2016

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).

  • SebastianC's avatar
    SebastianC
    Aspirant
    Apr 19, 2016

    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 on

    Do you guys have any idea what is going on?

    Bear in mind that approx 4GB of backup , out of 500GB is done correctly

    Sebastian

    • BrianL2's avatar
      BrianL2
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Apr 20, 2016

      Hi SebastianC,

       

      Check this ReadyNAS backup article and let me know if it helps you with your backup job problem.

       

       

      Kind regards,

       

      BrianL
      NETGEAR Community Team

       

       

      • SebastianC's avatar
        SebastianC
        Aspirant
        Apr 20, 2016

        Thanks,

        I have read the article , my case is exactly opposite as I am backing up NAS contents to external drive on Windows. Taking this onto account I have done all stuff according to the article but with no success.

        Sebastian

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