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spwilko
Aspirant
Oct 06, 2015
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ReadyNAS 102 replicate not doing incremental, only full backup

I have a pair of 102's with 6.2.5 firmware nas1 and nas2. I created a job with Replicate to backup a folder from nas1 to nas2. I ran the job and it performed a full backup. I run the job again it s...
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  • kohdee's avatar
    kohdee
    Oct 08, 2015

    Yes, it pulls them from the previous backup.

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kohdee
NETGEAR Expert
Oct 08, 2015

It does do incremental backups, but it also makes copies of files that haven't changed. These files don't consume additional space.  When you go to restore a Replicate back to a unit, it will only have to access one folder of files rather than jump around from different backups.

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spwilko
Aspirant
Oct 08, 2015

Thanks kohdee 

I see in the job report it says no files transferred, but if I look in the backup folders (using finder on a mac) I see copies of all files in each backup folder.

So is it copying the files locally from the previous backup?

 

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    kohdee
    NETGEAR Expert
    Oct 08, 2015

    Yes, it pulls them from the previous backup.

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