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Mr_Darcy
Jun 11, 2011Aspirant
ReadyNAS User Quota exceeded.
I have set up a backup of my timemachine backup to run once a week. Source is TimeMachine on NAS02Backup (10.0.0.4) Destination is rSynchServer address 10.0.0.9 (NAS01MediaShare) User rSyncUser r...
mdgm-ntgr
Jun 11, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
The user 'ReadyNAS' is the user the ReadyNAS creates for Time Machine. The Rsync user is used to authenticate to do the backups. The files themselves retain the ownership they had on the source NAS. Since the 'ReadyNAS' user has the same UID and GID on all ReadyNAS and the same 500GB quota by default you've run into this issue.
Solution: On NAS01MediaShare enable Time Machine and set a quota at least as large as the one you set on NAS02Backup, then disable Time Machine on NAS01MediaShare. I would then suggest you rerun the backup.
Solution: On NAS01MediaShare enable Time Machine and set a quota at least as large as the one you set on NAS02Backup, then disable Time Machine on NAS01MediaShare. I would then suggest you rerun the backup.
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