Rsync not completing - just .xls-files is problem...

What's the file system type of the USB disk?

-Stefan

WhoCares? wrote:
What's the file system type of the USB disk? -Stefan

Thanks Stefan!
I´m running the USB with another job right now so I can not check the file system now. But how do I find it?

Best,
Magnus

Either by looking at the USB disk information in Frontview or by connecting the drive to a PC and have a look using some sort of disk partitoning software.

-Stefan

Ok I see... It´s NTFS as I can see...

1 Seagate Desktop [Partition 1] 221 GB 931 GB NTFS 480

Then there's your problem. While the ReadyNASis able to write to NTFS partitions it doesn't - due to limitations in the driver used - support all of NTFS's features, most prominently ACLs. To get that support and also speed up your backups to USB drives I'd recommend reformatting the drive using the ext3 or ext4 format. Be aware however that neither of these can be read on a Windows machine natively. You'd need a Linux or a Mac system to be able to read from those drives without buying a special file system driver.

-Stefan

WhoCares? wrote:

Then there's your problem. While the ReadyNASis able to write to NTFS partitions it doesn't - due to limitations in the driver used - support all of NTFS's features, most prominently ACLs. To get that support and also speed up your backups to USB drives I'd recommend reformatting the drive using the ext3 or ext4 format. Be aware however that neither of these can be read on a Windows machine natively. You'd need a Linux or a Mac system to be able to read from those drives without buying a special file system driver. -Stefan

Ok, I understand. I tried to copy the .xls-files in another name and delete the original and finally the backup-job finished so I have to decide if I want to read the files from a PC or not in the future... Maybe I will by a Mac in the future and then reformat the drive to extX...

Thanks a lot for this help Stefan!

Best,
Magnus

I had the same problem as you a year back running RAIDiator 4.1.6. The solution was to
1) Install a newer version of the NTFS-3G driver (kindly provided by "WhoCares?"). The good news is that the latest version of RAIDiator now includes an updated NTFS-3G driver so this step should not be needed any more (caveat: I haven't upgraded to try this myself yet)
2) With the NTFS drive connected to your PC, create a folder on your NTFS drive called ".NTFS-3G"
3) Create a file in the .NTFS-3G folder called "UserMapping"
4) Put exactly this text into the UserMapping file and save

::S-1-5-21-3141592653-589793238-462643383-10000

5) Safely disconnect the USB drive from the PC (should be an icon in the icon tray to do this)
6) Connect your NTFS USB drive to your readynas and switch on the USB drive
7) Reboot your readynas

After that backups should work with no issues. Even file ownership will copy across correctly.

RAIDiator 4.1.8 includes NTFS-3G 2011.1.15 which supports ACLs.

Ok, does it work for you with no problems after that?

Best,
Magnus

mjw wrote:

I had the same problem as you a year back running RAIDiator 4.1.6. The solution was to 1) Install a newer version of the NTFS-3G driver (kindly provided by "WhoCares?"). The good news is that the latest version of RAIDiator now includes an updated NTFS-3G driver so this step should not be needed any more (caveat: I haven't upgraded to try this myself yet) 2) With the NTFS drive connected to your PC, create a folder on your NTFS drive called ".NTFS-3G" 3) Create a file in the .NTFS-3G folder called "UserMapping" 4) Put exactly this text into the UserMapping file and save ::S-1-5-21-3141592653-589793238-462643383-10000 5) Safely disconnect the USB drive from the PC (should be an icon in the icon tray to do this) 6) Connect your NTFS USB drive to your readynas and switch on the USB drive 7) Reboot your readynas After that backups should work with no issues. Even file ownership will copy across correctly. RAIDiator 4.1.8 includes NTFS-3G 2011.1.15 which supports ACLs.

Why not just try this out for yourself?

mjw wrote:
Why not just try this out for yourself?

Is it safe?