Issues with Ready NAS 314, destination is read-only.Firmware 6.1.9Seagate 4TB USB 3.0 HDD ST4000DM NAS set up with 3 shares (Tech, Manager and Marketing). Our marketing department has 5 users that share this NAS and they all connect to these shares thru afp.We recently purchased a Seagate USB HDD to back up the files on the NAS once per week.I have 3 backup jobs running 2 on Saturday and one on Sunday. The 2 jobs that run on Sat are smaller and are for the tech and manager shares). These backup jobs run with no problem. The backup job for the marketing Share is the largest of the 3 shares and takes about 55 minutes to backup. The Issue I am having is that the backup logs tell me the backup failed destination is read only. Although it appears that the files copied successfully. Don’t really know a way to compare what is in the NAS and what is on the external HDD to see if everything copied. It appears that everything copied. But I still get the FAIL in the log. See below for a copy of the Backup Log! ----------------------------------------------------------Backup Job Name: Marketing Weekly BAKBackup Job Type: IncrementalProtocol: localBackup Source: [Marketing]/Backup Destination: [USB_HDD_4]/MarketingBackup Start Time: Thu Sep 25 2014 17:03:40Backup Finish Time: Thu Sep 25 2014 18:03:41Backup Status: Fail: destination is read-only.----------------------------------------------------------Any Suggestions?

What filesystem is on the USB disk?If you download the logs, what is the date in bios_ver.log ?

mdgm wrote:What filesystem is on the USB disk?NTFSIf you download the logs, what is the date in bios_ver.log ?bios_date=04/03/2013bios_vendor=American Megatrends Inc.bios_version=4.6.5

Is the SeaGate disk set to automatically spin down? If you turn that spin down feature off does it make any difference?

mdgm wrote:Is the SeaGate disk set to automatically spin down? If you turn that spin down feature off does it make any difference?Where is the option to make the Segate disk "Spin Down"?Is that the Auto eject device when the job is done? (If that is under destination tab of the backup? This is unchecked. )

It might be set using a SeaGate tool you could run when the disk is connected to a PC.

Issues with Ready NAS 314, destination is read-only

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 26, 2014
What filesystem is on the USB disk?

If you download the logs, what is the date in bios_ver.log ?
tcatech
Aspirant
Sep 26, 2014
mdgm wrote:
What filesystem is on the USB disk?
NTFS

If you download the logs, what is the date in bios_ver.log ?

bios_date=04/03/2013
bios_vendor=American Megatrends Inc.
bios_version=4.6.5
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 26, 2014
Is the SeaGate disk set to automatically spin down? If you turn that spin down feature off does it make any difference?
tcatech
Aspirant
Oct 03, 2014
mdgm wrote:
Is the SeaGate disk set to automatically spin down? If you turn that spin down feature off does it make any difference?

Where is the option to make the Segate disk "Spin Down"?

Is that the Auto eject device when the job is done? (If that is under destination tab of the backup? This is unchecked. )
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 03, 2014
It might be set using a SeaGate tool you could run when the disk is connected to a PC.
tcatech
Aspirant
Oct 03, 2014
mdgm wrote:
It might be set using a SeaGate tool you could run when the disk is connected to a PC.

Thanks,
I will check into this and get back to you.
tcatech
Aspirant
Oct 11, 2014
tcatech wrote:
mdgm wrote:
It might be set using a SeaGate tool you could run when the disk is connected to a PC.

Thanks,
I will check into this and get back to you.

Well I found the SeaGate USB Drive is not set to spin down. So I still am at a loss for a resolution of this and my other issues with this NAS.
vandermerwe
Master
Oct 11, 2014
Have you tried reformatting the backup disk and running the backups again.
Can you consider using a different format to ntfs like ext4?
Also try running a disk check on the USB disk.
mike_nycom
Aspirant
Nov 03, 2014
unplug the USB hard drive and plug it into a PC, it should say the hard drive needs to be scanned to continue doo this and let it complete, then plug it back in the NAS.

A bit like win98 you have to eject the USB hard drives before removing them otherwise the data becomes read only until it has had a check disk
XAffi
Aspirant
Nov 09, 2014
Hi all,
I have a similar/same issue with my RN104. I made my Backup on an external WD 1TB 3,5" hard drive (USB2). It works well for all shares except one. It tells me that the destiination is read only. I assume the backup is finished, because it occures at the end (just my assumption). I am not sure if the external drive is meant be "destination". However --- It says backup is fail. Any idea how to figure out where it comes from?
BTW: I checked the harddrive on my local WIN machine, without any error.

Checking the logs in /var/log/frontview/backup:

status_backup_009:
BACKUP_STATUS__FAILED!!1415532530!!warn

and backup_009_copy.1415532530.log does not look different than for the other shares... It contains only one "interesting" line : "BACKUP_INFO_LOG_TRUNCATED:257630". But this seems nothing critical. Any additional ideas?

Thanks in advance.
Norbert

BTW: I got snmp data errors while the USB bcakup is running.. Is this usual?