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USB3 backup drive rarely recognized
I have backed up my NAS to a USB3 drive using the rear USB port and it always mounted ok and did an incremental backup. Since 6.5.0 the NAS rarely recognises and mounts the USB3 drive and when it do...
Apologies, I know this probably sounds odd, but that wasn't the title I typed. As you can see from the description the problem that I have is about recognition of a USB drive ;-)
I took the liberty of re-titling the thread
af8 wrote:
Apologies, I know this probably sounds odd, but that wasn't the title I typed. As you can see from the description the problem that I have is about recognition of a USB drive ;-)
Can you connect the USB disk, try running the backup, then download the logs and send them in (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?
Logs sent as requested
The logs show that the USB disk is virtually 100% full. Filling any filesystem that full is a very bad thing to do. You're much more likely to run into issues with a full filesystem than with one that is say 80-90% full. It does vary from filesystem to filesystem. I see that you are using NTFS.
I see in the logs "failed to read block 0xe8df809".
You should hook the disk up to a PC and check it's health using the tool from WD. If it passes you should do a filesystem check on it. You should also free up some space.
Please follow the instructions in future when sending in the logs. I didn't see any link to the thread in your email, nor did I see any reference in the subject of the email (or in the body) to point out that it was for me.
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