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Re: NV+ Backup to Mac Share

browerjs
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NV+ Backup to Mac Share

My Windows box that I had my Backup USB drive connected to recently crashed, so I moved the USB drive over to my OSX box.  I'm trying to get a backup job to copy from my ReadyNAS share to my OSX share (on the USB drive), but it won't connect.

 

I'm trying to use: Remote: Windows/NAS (Timestamp) as the destination, but when I put in my credentials and the share info, I get invalid login when I try testing the connection.

 

My user name on the Mac does have a space in it, so I don't know if that's part of the problem.

 

Any ideas, do I need a different destination, type, different user name, etc?

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StephenB
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@browerjs wrote:

 

My user name on the Mac does have a space in it, so I don't know if that's part of the problem.

 


That's it.  You'll need a username w/o a space.

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browerjs
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When i tried creating another account, I get Unable to connect.  It gets me around Invalid Login.

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StephenB
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@browerjs wrote:

When i tried creating another account, I get Unable to connect.  It gets me around Invalid Login.


Does that second account have permission to access the share?

 

I'm not a mac owner, so I can't offer specifics.

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browerjs
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@StephenB wrote:

@browerjs wrote:

When i tried creating another account, I get Unable to connect.  It gets me around Invalid Login.


Does that second account have permission to access the share?

 

I'm not a mac owner, so I can't offer specifics.


It does, I'm able to access it via a windows box.

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StephenB
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@browerjs wrote:

@StephenB wrote:


Does that second account have permission to access the share?

 


It does, I'm able to access it via a windows box.


Then the NAS should be able to access it too, using the same credentials.

 

It could be an SMB incompabitility - you might have to disable SMB signing on the mac.  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205926

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browerjs
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@StephenB wrote:

@browerjs wrote:

@StephenB wrote:


Does that second account have permission to access the share?

 


It does, I'm able to access it via a windows box.


Then the NAS should be able to access it too, using the same credentials.

 

It could be an SMB incompabitility - you might have to disable SMB signing on the mac.  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205926


Just tried disabling that, and I still get the same issue.  It might be easier to just plug the drive directly into the NAS, but I was hoping to have it powered from a different circuit.

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StephenB
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@browerjs wrote:


Just tried disabling that, and I still get the same issue.  It might be easier to just plug the drive directly into the NAS, but I was hoping to have it powered from a different circuit.


USB backup on the NV+ is also extremely slow.

 

You could try exporting with NFS instead of SMB.  https://macvfx.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/nfs-set-up-with-os-x-10-9-mavericks/

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browerjs
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@StephenB wrote:

@browerjs wrote:


Just tried disabling that, and I still get the same issue.  It might be easier to just plug the drive directly into the NAS, but I was hoping to have it powered from a different circuit.


USB backup on the NV+ is also extremely slow.

 

You could try exporting with NFS instead of SMB.  https://macvfx.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/nfs-set-up-with-os-x-10-9-mavericks/


I couldn't get my USB drive to export to NFS, but I was able to get another directory to export and the NV+ was able to connect.  I did realize that my drive was formatted in NTFS, which OSX can't write to natively, which may be part of the problem.  Not sure yet.

 

I'm still not sure why I can't get any directories to work over SMB though.

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StephenB
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@browerjs wrote:
I did realize that my drive was formatted in NTFS, which OSX can't write to natively, 

 


Paragon has some inexpensive software that might help there. 

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browerjs
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@StephenB wrote:

@browerjs wrote:
I did realize that my drive was formatted in NTFS, which OSX can't write to natively, 

 


Paragon has some inexpensive software that might help there. 


Installed the Trial software, was able to rename my drive (to get rid of the space, just in case it wasn't working), but still can't get this thing to export.  I may just have to reformat it.

 

Question.  If I copy all the data off of the drive, and then put it back under the new filesystem format, will the readynas pick up where it left off with the incremental backups or will it essentially start over with a full backup.  Trying to figure out if it's worth my time to copy back and forth before doing the format.

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StephenB
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@browerjs wrote:

Question.  If I copy all the data off of the drive, and then put it back under the new filesystem format, will the readynas pick up where it left off with the incremental backups or will it essentially start over with a full backup.  Trying to figure out if it's worth my time to copy back and forth before doing the format.


If you are using the Windows timestamp method (which you probably are), then it depends on what the file timestamps turn out to be.  It might copy them again.

 

 

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