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Restoring from USB Drive
Hi All,
Recently purchased a Readynas 1500 for storage for the company I work in. Been playing around with the backups etc and found that if I backed up to USB using NTFS you have the issue with permissions, has this been resolved yet?
Therefore formatted the 1TB USB drive using EXT3 format which backs up fine and keeps the permissions etc all very good.
The only problem I have is if my readynas was to die how would I recover my data from my USB drive I know that there are opensource programs such EXT2IFS which I tried using initally on my Windows 7 64 bit OS and there was no chance and I have tried accessing on Windows Server 2003 (test server) and likewise I can see the partition but cannot mount it for some reason?
What I dont like is the fact I can only backup in EXT3 format to keep the permissions surely there has to be a better way. I am happy with the storage just disappointed in the backing up.
Suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers
Recently purchased a Readynas 1500 for storage for the company I work in. Been playing around with the backups etc and found that if I backed up to USB using NTFS you have the issue with permissions, has this been resolved yet?
Therefore formatted the 1TB USB drive using EXT3 format which backs up fine and keeps the permissions etc all very good.
The only problem I have is if my readynas was to die how would I recover my data from my USB drive I know that there are opensource programs such EXT2IFS which I tried using initally on my Windows 7 64 bit OS and there was no chance and I have tried accessing on Windows Server 2003 (test server) and likewise I can see the partition but cannot mount it for some reason?
What I dont like is the fact I can only backup in EXT3 format to keep the permissions surely there has to be a better way. I am happy with the storage just disappointed in the backing up.
Suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers
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- Why not backup to a remote pc (set up a routine in FrontView) and then take your USB backup from that if required.
That way you end up with two backup copies and can use the file format required. - The only issue I have with that is the time involved, I have about 800GB of data and for me to backup to a remote machine and then copy to USB will take hours its just frustrating that NTFS is not supported or works properly
- I Totally agree with Simmian on this matter, I've just purchased a ReadyNAS Pro 4 and I too tried formatting a USB backup drive in NTFS for my NAS backup to, this didn't work so I had to reformat my backup drive in EXT3 using the ReadyNAS front view. The backup worked using EXT3 filesystem but like Simmian I cannot access the drive on any other operating system if I wish to recover files, I too am concerned that if my NAS craps out then I cannot access my backup files. What use is my backup going to be if I can only view the files through the NAS itself and it's dead.
I also tried reformatting the backup drive in FAT32 through Front View, did a backup to it and plugged it into my Windows PC thinking it should work fine because Windows recognizes FAT32... Noooo, "Drive unrecognized please reformat". I've gotta say for a backup system the ReadyNAS feature offers very little comfort and reassurance.
Netgear, can this please be addressed in a later firmware release - possibly the ability to format USB storage in NTFS with proven compatibility on external Operating systems?
regards
Mark - The ReadyNAS implementation of NTFS is so excruciatingly slow it is a wate of time anyway. For some reason it is miles quicker to backup to a USB drive that is attached to a PC, pulling all the data over the network, than it is to backup to a USB drive that is directly attached to the NAS (NVX). That just shouldn't be the case.
- Can't you just use a Linux computer to copy the data? If you don't have it installed, you can just run Linux off a boot cd.
- Hi all
I got a ReadyNAS 3200 and It gets backed up to 2TB USB HDD which is on EXT3 format (Thanks Simmian ).
Im using Ext2fsd 0.50 to access the data on the USB on a win 7 workstation. It works :)
http://www.ext2fsd.com/
However my problem is our NAS box has couple of shares but the data which get backed up to the USB is all over the place. All the data is there but NOt according to shares. So is there any way we could backup data according to shares?
Cheers - Create a folder for each share on the USB drive and use each folder as the target for your backup jobs.
ewok wrote: Create a folder for each share on the USB drive and use each folder as the target for your backup jobs.
Thanks :)
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