I am running into this as well, the backup finishes immediately after I hit the backup button. I backup to a USB drive using rsync, and today I had another issue with the ReadyNAS being unable to boot after a power outage, so I thought it was related to the OS reinstall I had to do, but it appears it isn't. I formatted my backup drive thinking it was the problem, and when I try to reenable rsync permission on the drive, I get an error "Unknown User (root)" and am unable to give rsync permission to access the disk. Is this related to the issue?
Aplologies for delayed response - unexpectedly not avaliable.
Is 6.7.5-T299 (Beta 1) recommended to fix this problem? It has not been offered obviously as it is beta nor talked about but a fix is urgently needed?
It says
Unless you are advised by NETGEAR Support in a support case to update to beta software, NETGEAR Support may deny support if you are running beta software. You can seek help here on the NETGEAR Community for issues encountered on the beta.
and I can't afford to introduce other problems.
If it is a known good fix, surely it could say so?
If it is a known good fix, surely it could say so?
What it says is: [Beta 1] Fixed an issue where rsync local-to-remote backup jobs would only back up the top-level folder.
So it fixes that problem, as @capaz attests. Is that the problem you have?
Unless you are advised by NETGEAR Support in a support case to update to beta software, NETGEAR Support may deny support if you are running beta software. You can seek help here on the NETGEAR Community for issues encountered on the beta.
As you likely know all ReadyNAS public betas have that warning. I am running 6.7.5-RC1 on my backup NAS, and haven't had any issues. But it is possible that Netgear Support would deny support if you install it.
Yes, I saw the[Beta 1] Fixed an issue where rsync local-to-remote backup jobs would only back up the top-level folder.
I was anticipating an rsync only fix ... my post was expressed badly (just out of hospital) - I was alluding to the other things in that release potentially causing problems ...
Thanks for your post though, it gives me the confidence to go ahead and install it.
This one is already at release-candidate, and it's been stable for me (at least).
But, honestly, Netgear doesn't have the best track record with firmware releases of late. Though I actually need to install 6.7.5's fixes to resume my rsync backups (now several months out of date), I'm not updating until it's been officially released and tested in the wild for a week or two without incident.
Yh im thinking about saving up and jumping ship maby a move to synology would be better at the end of the day we are only paying our money because we care about our data
And netgear don't seem to be up to that role
With constant firmware bugs and no rush to fix major problems like a Rsync backup
Thanks! Best of luck to the canaries in the coal mine. I'm going to wait to hear others' experience and see if this is less buggy than the last 6.7.x releases.
Download 6.7.5 from the release notes page and install it on the NAS this way. The "check for update" is usually rolled out days or weeks after the firmware is actually available for download.
Yes, IMHO it's always better if the update is pushed rather than pulled.
Downloaded the ReadyNASOS-6.7.5-x86_64.zip file but:
I use Linux OS (Ubuntu 16.04.2). I have tried uploading from my desktop but get 'Unrecognised server error'.
My usb drives do not have mount points on my pc so are not visible in the Browse window.
Whilst I could put the update file in a share which is mounted on the pc this is all rather 'messy'. OK, so 2 units are Legacy (Pro2 and Ultra2) and one a 31400 but it should not be this 'difficult'.
Any ideas please and may I ask why this update is not pushed? That makes updates far more 'easy'.
Any ideas please and may I ask why this update is not pushed? That makes updates far more 'easy'.
Netgear always delays putting the new firmware on the auto-update server.
Though they've never said exactly why, my guess is that it gives them a little time to see if there are any unexpected issues before it hits the full installed base.
With this new firmware version I no longer get errors enabling the rsync permission for my USB drive, and the backup appears to be running normally. So it looks like it is fixed.
