I have a daily backup job which backs up to an external USB drive.
Two days ago, I started to get an error like this:
Error backup job 'backup-01': destination is read-only
The thing is, the job appears to have been completed as all the files are in the destination folder and comparison between the source and destination shows no discrepancy - so I don't understand why I am getting the error e-mails.
I have a daily backup job which backs up to an external USB drive.
Two days ago, I started to get an error like this:
Error backup job 'backup-01': destination is read-only
The thing is, the job appears to have been completed as all the files are in the destination folder and comparison between the source and destination shows no discrepancy - so I don't understand why I am getting the error e-mails.
What is the file format of your external USB drive? Is it FAT32 or NTFS?
Sorry, I should have specified that it is NTFS which I chose because I edit video and files can get too big for FAT32.
I am on a Mac and tried repairing the disk with Tuxera NTFS via DiskTools as per advice I received on here about another USB issue.
At the moment, I haven't got anywhere to dump the data on the drive to expedite it being reformatted but I plan to acquire another drive in the near future.
I don't know if this is of any interest to anybody but I think I fixed this problem.
First of all, I moved everything from the destination folder to another folder.
Then, I deleted the destination folder and recreated it using the ReadyNAS web interface, rather than my Mac's Finder.
Then, I simply put everything back in the newly created folder. I ran the backup job and there were no errors.
It seems that creating the folder using the Mac Finder, whilst it worked flawlessly for several months, suddenly found a problem which may be related to the fact that it is no longer possible to create backup jobs to USB drives using the web interface on OS 6.2.4 which I hope will be fixed soon.
