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Readynas 102 not backing up and freezing after upgrade to 6.4.2
My client has a Readynas 102 2x3tb system It is backed up by 2 x WD 3TB disks which are rotated and plugged into the front of the Nas. It has always been a bit problematic in that the WD driv...
O.K. I think this discussion has run its course.
Now that this is fixed in 6.5.0 if you have any issues on that you should open a new thread.
I'm closing this thread.
As an update for those of interest.
As at 9th May I have been told that 6.5.0 will solve the backing up issues.........mind you 6.4.0 was going to solve issues as well!
I have for some time been using my old ReadyNAS V1 rather than the 102 simply because it never let me down.........speaks volumes doesn't it?
I have noticed that some issues appear to clear if the 102 is simply restarted prior to attempting a backup but which will then subsequently reappear at the next backup attempt.
I am in the construction business, mostly in building services (heating, lighting, air conditioning etc), I wonder if Netgear office staff would be happy if their AC failed today and I didn't put it right for over 6 months?
The NTFS speeds are much faster with 6.5.0, I posted more specifics in the beta forum.
My guess is that release will be very soon.
Thanks, yes support have indicated 'any day' now.
I will be interested to see if this solves my NAS to NAS issues as well. Particularly the problem that in order to carry out that weekly backup I had to power down and power up the 102 else it would report that the other NAS wasn't available, yet strangely using the TEST button in the set up routine for the backups the 102 would report all was well.
I would like to know how this NTFS issue ever got through the testing but whatever the reason theres been little excuse in my opinion to keep customers waiting over six months to resolve this. This is without doubt the very worst service I have had in any dealings with IT since my first involvement back in the 1980's, not that anyone really cares a jot do they?
YorkBoy wrote:
...I will be interested to see if this solves my NAS to NAS issues as well. Particularly the problem that in order to carry out that weekly backup I had to power down and power up the 102 else it would report that the other NAS wasn't available,
Overall 6.5 betas have worked fairly well for me, the issues I found were all fixed.
My USB testing was quite limited, since I don't normally use it.
I do have quite a few NAS-NAS backup jobs running on the RN102 and RN202. But I haven't seen your particular issue, so I can't speak to that. My backups all use IP address, and not the NAS name.
"My backups all use IP address, and not the NAS name."......
Yes and so do mine.
What happens is that my NAS to NAS backups will either run incredibly slow and make access to the 102 almost impossible or they will fail. To prevent either of these issues I discovered that powering down and up the NAS just prior to the backup routine solved this.
Obviously I no longer run this routine as the 102 is gathering dust until we have a solution for the problems.
If this doesn't arrive I'll attempt a downgrade to 6.2.5 as one way or another I am determined to resolve this before the end of this month.
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