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Issues backing up readynas 214 to external USB device
Model: ReadyNAS 214 Current Firmware: 6.7.2 I have a readynas 214 that I previously had backing up the full nas volume to an external usb3 docking bay to 4 TB Seagate hard drives using the built...
I have managed to get the backups to complete. I did a hardware factory reset from the boot menu, updated to most recent firmware, reconfigured my backup jobs to backup individual shares rather than the full volume and reformated my backup media to NTFS rather than EXT4 and the backups have now completed successfully twice in a row.
Fingers crossed the issue is resolved. Thanks for the help.
1stpastthepost wrote:Model: ReadyNAS 214
Current Firmware: 6.7.2
Did you try on 6.7.5?
Did you get it working on any F/W? If not, what makes you think the issue is the F/W?
I did try it on firmware 6.7.5 before downgrading. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. I've haven't tried any other firmwares other than 6.7.2, 6.7.4, and 6.7.5 since the backup worked for several months on firmware 6.7.3 (which was the out of the box firmware).
I'm not 100% sure it is the firmware causing the issue but the backup ran without incident for several months and failed immediately after updating the firmware. It could be something else I suppose but what I'm not sure. It doesn't appear to be a corruption in the the data being backed up as I have factory reset a couple of times now and tried backing up with different sets of data with the same result. Which to me leaves hardware failure as the only other thing I can think of but netgear support insists it could not be that if it is only the backup manager failing.
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