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Local rsync to USB
Hello, I have a readynas 102 with 2 4TB WD RED HDD's. OS 6.5.2. Homenetwork. Making a first time backup from a local folder to a local USB drive was very easy with the backup options in the NAS....
Looks like you were getting about 7 MB/sec. How was the drive formatted? What firmware are you running?
Future backups will be incremental, so it will only copy the data that has changed. They'll run faster (though the transfer rate might not improve, there will be a lot less to copy).
The drive was NTFS formatted and the FW was 6.5.2.
Any suggestions how I could speed up this RSync proces? Should the back USB drive have been formatted differently?
The NTFS software in 6.5.0 and later are pretty fast, so formatting the drive differently probably wouldn't matter very much. You could try formatting as ext4 or btrfs, but if you can't read the backup from your PC, then IMO that is a bad idea.
I think the issue is that you are running into the performance limits of the NAS (its CPU is much slower than the other NAS models).
Try running it again (incrementally) and see what times you get. 7 MB/sec is still decent for incremental backups - generally you are only updating a couple of gigabytes.
Ok, thanks you very much for your help! I will try the incremental somewhat later. And I will put the info here.
BR, Pieter
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