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Waterboy99
Mar 17, 2017Aspirant
RN314 Backups Fail When I Change USB Drives
I'm using v6.6.1. AV is off. I am backing up to external USB drives, which I change every 2 days. When I initially set it up, the back up ran fine the first time. When I change to another drive, ...
- Mar 28, 2017
Hi Waterboy99,
I think what he wanted was to try and re-configure the back-up job to point out the USB location rather than a share.
Regards,
Waterboy99
Mar 17, 2017Aspirant
It's mapped to a Share
NTFS
No, but I tried the automatic "Dismount after backup" but it wouldn't backup the next night because it couldn't find the drive. Not going to ask staff to dismount the drive when they change it. Should not have to use a manual procedure.
No use between backups.
jak0lantash
Mar 17, 2017Mentor
You should rethink the way you're doing this.
- Waterboy99Mar 20, 2017Aspirant
Great, but it might be helpful to state how I should rethink that.
- Waterboy99Mar 22, 2017Aspirant
Any update on this? I kind of got left hanging.
- FramerVMar 28, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi Waterboy99,
I think what he wanted was to try and re-configure the back-up job to point out the USB location rather than a share.
Regards,
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