Backup Error - cannot create symbolic link AND more

[reekahdoh]

Hi Guys,

I have a ReadyNas DUO, a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Frontview with Raidiator 4.1.8 and have never been able to trigger a backup successfully to my USB (formatted to fat32).

So I have a backup job

Job: 001
Protocol: local
Source: [media]/Pictures
Destination: [USB_HDD_1_1]/snapshots/snapshot_20_12_2011

An example of some of the errors that I see in the logs are :

cp: cannot create symbolic link `/USB_HDD_1_1/snapshots/snapshot_20_12_2011/Pictures/iChat Icons': Operation not permitted
cp: cannot create directory `/USB_HDD_1_1/snapshots/snapshot_20_12_2011/iPhoto Library/Masters/2007/e bay ': Invalid argument

Many files do copy across -but I also get a message such as :

Backup failed. Thu Dec 22 19:32:26 WET 2011.

Reason for failure:
Error encountered copying data from source path Pictures ==> /USB_HDD_1_1/snapshots/snapshot_20_12_2011 due to unknown reason. Please see log.

I don't really understand why this doesn't work - and I don't understand how I can get my backup jobs to run without errors.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Richard


Logs available if required.

[mdgm-ntgr]

Try changing the backup job properties to do a Rsync backup to USB disk (be sure to enable FAT32 compatibility mode) and running the backup job again.

Your profile says you have a 2100 (a 4-bay rackmount ReadyNAS). Unless you have this as well as your Duo v1, please correct your profile to say that you have the Duo (v1).

[reekahdoh]

Hi mdgm,

INCREMENTAL Backup started. Sat Dec 24 08:01:28 WET 2011

Job: 001
Protocol: rsync
Source: [media]/Pictures
Destination: localhost::USB_HDD_1_1/snapshots/rsync_24_12

I tried your suggestion but still get a few errors such as :-

rsync: symlink "/snapshots/rsync_24_12/Pictures/iChat Icons" (in USB_HDD_1_1) -> "/Library/Application Support/Apple/iChat Icons/" failed: Operation not permitted (1)

However more worringly is the inal error message shows a large discrepancy between sent and received data.

sent 23306969163 bytes received 2372205 bytes 1197346.42 bytes/sec
total size is 23322335658 speedup is 1.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1070) [sender=3.0.8]


Backup failed. Sat Dec 24 13:25:58 WET 2011.

Reason for failure:
Error encountered copying data from source path /media/Pictures ==> localhost::USB_HDD_1_1/snapshots/rsync_24_12 due to unknown reason. Please see log.

I understand that FAT32 doesn't support symblic links. But I have a MAC, so can't write to NTFS and can't read EXT3.

Any further guidance much appreciated.


Richard