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RN104 Incremental Backup to USB3
My daily backup to USB seems to be taking forever recently, similar amount of data but it's just not finishing in time. I've hovered over the backup whilst it is running and the overview pop-up says ...
What do I need to use for the destination path if.... the hdd is named USB_HDD_16 and the folder I want to copy to is Digital?
The NAS I'm pushing/copying from has rsync enabled in the settings.
Again, thanks.
A few hours in and the speed has gone up to 18mb/s.
- What firmware are you running?
- How is the USB drive formatted?
- How is the backup job set up now?
The best way to do an incremental backup is to use rsync.
Thanks for the reply. Info below...
FW 6.9.5
USB drive formatted to EXT4
Backup is set to daily, local share to usb... it removes contents and then does a full backup
It's now 7hrs in and is transferring at 22.3mb/s... it started mid-morning
Concept4 wrote:
FW 6.9.5
USB drive formatted to EXT4
Thanks. Personally I'd use NTFS, since I want to be able to access the backup from Windows. But if you have other linux systems, EXT4 is a reasonable choice. If not, I suggest you change to a different format.
Concept4 wrote:
It's now 7hrs in and is transferring at 22.3mb/s... it started mid-morning
I think you must mean MB/s (megabytes, not megabits). This is slow, but it could be a slow drive - particularly if it uses SMR. What model is it?
Concept4 wrote:
Backup is set to daily, local share to usb... it removes contents and then does a full backup
So that isn't incremental. You can make it incremental by switching to rsync - making the source "remote" and using 127.0.0.1 for it's IP address.
But it is wise to set it up to do a full backup every now and then. I've had USB drives fail on me, and more than once I've found that old files on the drive looked ok, but couldn't be read. Doing the occasional full backup should lower the odds of that.
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