SLOW backing up to USB

You can get your NTFS backups up to the performance level of FAT (5 MB/sec) by using a newer version of the NTFS-3G driver:
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The advantages being:
1. You can directly plug the external drive into a Windows PC and access the files without adding any drivers to Windows
2. You don't have the 4GB limitation of FAT32

In addition the very latest version of the driver also supports proper copying of file ownership, permissions and ACLs which means that instead of your files on NTFS all becoming owned by root with permissions 777, you can preserve the permissions that were on EXT3.

The other key thing to make performance acceptable is to use RSYNC to do the backup. i.e.Here are the settings I use in Frontview "Backup Jobs".

Note that RSYNC must be switched on in Services -> Standard File Protocols.

STEP 1
- Select "Remote: Rsync Server" from drop down menu
- Host: localhost
- Path: <name_of_share>/<subdirectory> (Note there is no preceding '/')
- Login: admin
- Password: <frontview password for your Readynas>
- Enable compression: OFF
- Remove deleted files on source: ON

STEP 2
- Select "Share: USB_HDD_1" from the drop down menu
- Path: backups (or whatever the name of the directory is on your USB drive where you want to store the backup. Note there is no preceding '/')

STEP 3
Choose when you want the backup to be performed

STEP 4
- Schedule full backup: First time
- On backup completion, send "errors only" to the alert email address
- Remove the contents of the backup destination before a full backup is performed. This will clean the backup destination of files which were removed in the backup source. Warning, This will delete all files and folders in the backup destination. OFF
- After backup is complete, change ownership of files in the backup destination to the share owner if the destination is a ReadyNAS share. OFF