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Accessing EXT3 external harddrive connected to the front USB of the ReadyNASRNDP6310 from Windows.
For years I have been backing up my ReadyNAS Pro to external harddrives connected to the front USB port on the ReadyNAS. The external harddrives were formatted as NTFS and my backups always had errors as a result. We now have some new, larger harddrives (8TB) and I have formatted my first one as EXT3 using the ReadyNAS admin Frontview. My problem is that I would like to be able to make changes to the folder structure on the external drive, so that I can put different backups into different folders etc. So, in the past I have been able to do this kind of thing from my Windows server using windows explorer and expanding: My Network Places\readynaspro\usb_hdd_1
I can do this but I had problems with creating folders. So, I downloaded Ext2 File System Driver. However, this does not seem to have a facility for me to navigate to the usb_hdd_1 to mount that, unless you can tell me otherwise.
So, my question is: Can I view or make changes to the folder structure etc on the external drive while it is connected to the ReadyNAS Pro? If so, how?
All our machines are Windows.
Thank you
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Hi nowthennet,
I believe you can achieve this by setting Read/write and Allow guest access on the said USB_HDD_1 share in the admin page. Then make the changes to the folder structure (root/sub) using Windows File Explorer.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community TeamThank you very much for your help.
Once I have created the folder structure necessary for storing my different backups, I would like to set it to read only. My question is, will my backup work if I do that? My backup is set to perform a full backup for the initial backup and then to perform incremental backups after that. Now, it seems that the way the ReadyNAS understands incremental backups is to just compare the backup source with the backup destination and to replace backup destination files that have now changed, with the new versions of the files in the backup source....SO, when it comes to synchronise files from the source to the destination then it has to delete the old source file. Will it be able to do that if the share is set to be READ ONLY?
Thank you
If the source shares are on the NAS and the destination drive is connected to the NAS, AND you are not using a Windows, FTP, NFS, or RSYNC for the backup protocol then you should be able to set the network access to read-only - since the NAS backup job isn't using the network. You'll want to leave the file permissions alone.
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