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Aug 31, 2017ReadyNas 202 - Connection cannot be established. Check the connection and authentication
Since the last four firmware updates my backups from a ftp server to the nas are failing after a while with Connection cannot be established. Check the connection and authentication serial number of my nas:45Y2545500149 using firmware 6.8.0. The ftp server is fine I can connect to it via ws_ftp pro using same log in details as saved in the nas backup. I can access the ftp server shares etc. I've changed the leads no change, I did a factory restore and no difference.
If I run the backup again manually sometimes it will complete and others not making the backups hit a miss.
What is going wrong ? What can I do to fix this ? seems this has been a issue with some for several years.
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- JennCNETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello philsbbs,
Is this local backup or over the Internet? Also, are you using the built-in Backup Job of ReadyNAS or a third party backup software?
Please post some screenshots of errors and settings.
Regards,
- Retired_Member
Morning Jenn,
Is this local backup or over the Internet?
* It's a local backup and the nas is connected direct to the netgear switch, the ftp server is also plugged into the same netgear switch.
Also, are you using the built-in Backup Job of ReadyNAS or a third party backup software?
* I'm using the built in backup software in 6.8, also when the backup fails the Test Connection link still works.
Settings can be viewed via
https://readycloud.netgear.com/client/dllink.html#t=0i33glkx568/netgear.docx
Thanks for your help.
Have a good weekend.
Phil
- JennCNETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello philsbbs,
Are you using WAN/Internet IP address to point to the FTP server? If so, can you try using the LAN IP of the FTP server instead and see if there's any difference.
Regards,
- Retired_Member
The next backup just failed.
==
Backup Job Name: everything
Backup Job Type: Incremental
Protocol: ftp
Backup Source: [remote:ftp]/ftp://192.168.0.2/
Backup Destination: [Backups]/Everything
Backup Start Time: Wed Sep 6 2017 11:18:09
Backup Finish Time: Wed Sep 6 2017 12:27:17
Backup Status: Fail: Connection cannot be established. Check the connection and authentication, if required.Failed to copy Excel_Files/Personal/Outstanding Invoices 2017.xlsx
Failed to copy Excel_Files/sslimited/invoices/PS080.xlsx
Cannot connect to server or connection timeout! Timeout was reached
Failed to copy Pictures/computer/Tomb%20Raider%20Legend-a.jpgCopy (F) certificate2.crt
Copy (F) mail7.wav
Copy (F) marley_backup.jobx
Copy (F) midland.adp
Copy (F) MVC Forum.docx==
- Retired_Member
The backup job that failed has completed from a manual start.
See what I mean its hit and miss if backup completes.
- Retired_Member
Morning All,
If I cannot find a solution shortly I will have no choice but to decommision the nas and purchase a synolgy or qnap solution.
So any ideas most welcomed.
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