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ReadyNAS Backup
1687 TopicsAfter backup: Destination is read-only?
I'm working on implementing a proper backup procedure as most experts on this forum recommend. But when trying to backup a large amount of data, I keep getting this error message: Backup: Error backup job 'data to USB_HDD_4': destination is read-only. The data, at first glance, seems to be copied to the USB drive. I tried this on 3 different disks, 2 of which brand-new out of the box. So I don't believe they would all be faulty. This makes me think it is either a problem with my data on the NAS or a problem in the FrontView backup procedure. When I connect the disk to the PC and remove directories manually, for some files with exteremely long names and a deep path, I get an error message "Source Path Too Long": Therefore I'm currently suspecting very long file names and/or very long file paths, but I'm not sure if that is really what is causing this. I removed some directories I suspected from the NAS, but in the next backup, the message keeps comming back. So now I'm stuck in a catch-22 situation. I'm not sure if my backup succeeds and don't want to remove any more data from the NAS, because it may not have been backed up properly. So I'm not able to implement a proper backup procedure at this time. Has anyone found a root cause for the "Destination is read-only" message? Is there any way that I can get more information on what went wrong during the backup (e.g. what file is causing the message)?Solved19KViews0likes24Comments
How to Upgrade Disks in ReadyNAS Duo V1
I have an older Sparc ReadyNas Duo V1 with RAID-X and two 500 GB Disks. We use our NAS as our primary network storage within the media share. There is the regular assortment of folders with office documents, etc within the media share, the largest being "pictures". I use the backup share on the NAS for snapshot backups of Quickbooks and to make an image copy of a couple of notebook computers. Our NAS is on UPS backup and it is set to power off when the UPS gets to 30%. The RAIDAR health screen shows 33 minutes of UPS power. I use the power off/on scheduler to power off every night around midnight and power on around 7 or 8 AM. This has worked flawlessly. The NAS is about 75% full, so I have purchased a pair of 2TB disks to replace them. I chose the WD20EFRXAZ, which is the NAS specific RED versions. I was backing up my NAS to a 500GB MyBook, alternating between two of them, monthly or whenever. They will be replaced by 2TB MyBooks, again an alternating pair of them. I run two backup jobs, one with source: media share and one with source: backup share. The second job is checked to "Unmount usb drive after backup". I have never had to perform a "restore", so I need a little guidance. And THANKS IN ADVANCE! for your help. In reading other posts, it seems like I should do a "complete backup" (or two), and a configuration backup. Power off, remove old 500GB disks. Install new 2TB disk. Then somehow do a "factory reset"? Restore my configuration backup. Restore my data. Could it be that easy? Detailed question follow... I appreciate every bit of help and advice you can give me. For sure, I know almost nothing of LINUX! What I think I know may be only enough for me to be dangerous, but here is what I think: to backup/restore the configuration, I plan to use the Frontview panel of System>Config Backup, the "backup" tag and choose "Everything". I see this creates a .zip file which I have on a couple of PC desktop screens. I assume that I'll restore the ReadyNAS configuration from System>Config Backup, the "restore" tab and pick that .zip file from my desktop? For data backup and restore, I think I use the Backup> Add a new backup job and define it to save everything. So does that mean two backup jobs: one each with the source my media share to a destination of USB front panel, and another with the source my backup share and destination the USB front panel. OR should I using the source of "Select this ReadyNAS or remote"? Is that an option? What is meant by "volume C:" ? Is that the C: drive on my local PC or the entire drive in the ReadyNAS? To RESTORE, it seems like I need to create more "backup jobs" with the source and destination reversed? For RESTORE, my source would obviously be the USB front panel, but what is the destination? Is "Select this ReadyNAS or remote" an option for the destination? I don't see "volume C:" as a destination, so "volume c:" probably doesn't refer to the ReadyNAS disk? It seems like I would need two RESTORE "backup jobs"? One for my media share and one for my backup share? Unless there is a way to simply "save all data" and "restore all data"? Thanks for helping this non-LINUX guy understand. As a non-LINUX user, how can I look at my backup drive to be sure that it is complete?16KViews0likes30Comments
Time Machine could not be accessed, network password problem
I'm running OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) and after running the latest set of updates from the App Store (Security Update 2016-003, Safari 10.0.2, XCode Command Line Tools 8.2, iTunes 12.5.4), Time Machine has stopped being able to access my shared ReadyNAS TM share. I'm running latest firmware (6.6.0). The error reported from the Time Machine prefpane is: Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "nas". The network backup disk could not be accessed because there was a problem with the network username or password. You may need to re-select the backup disk and enter the correct username and password In the console, I see: com.apple.backupd[2950]: NAConnectToServerSync failed with error: 80 (Authentication error) for url: afp://ReadyNAS@nas._afpovertcp._tcp.local./timemachine com.apple.backupd[2950]: Authentication error (80) - the correct user or password info may not exist in the System.keychain or the server may no longer allow access for this user. com.apple.backupd[2950]: Attempting to mount network destination using alternate URL: afp://ReadyNAS@nas.local/timemachine It doesn't help if I delete the relevant keychain entry, remove the disk from the prefpane and re-enter the credentials when prompted. Rebooting the Mac makes no difference. The shared Time Machine settings in FrontView admin look fine. It successfully backed up an hour ago. I fear something in AFP has been broken by the latest update...Solved16KViews0likes3Comments
How to backup from remote to local
Hello again... i want to back up my main folder with my files from Remote to a folder which i have create to the local. I try to do this but when i select remote it wants to fill: Host Protocol Share Login Password I have linux (Ubuntu), how i fill these lines so i take backup my files? Also if a file from the remote is the same file to the local it replace it automatic or it will ask me? Thanks you and sorry for my bad English...Solved14KViews0likes7Comments
Backup ALL local shares to USB drive
Hi, I just wondered how to use USB as a Backup destination for RN 102, because it will always copy data from inside the share to the root of the USB device, and that for each share, mixing up the shares. As workaround, I tried to specify a destination folder on the USB drive for every share, but that is greyed out. In addition, I tried a volume backup (/data) but that is not possible due to the enabled snapshots of btrfs, the required space just grows exponential for me (USB drive has no btrfs). Is there any way to exclude snapshots for volume backups? My current solution is creating folders for each share on each new backup USB drive and then manually changing the destination to a share on the drive, but a) I have to change it for each new Backup drive, and b) it is annoying to change all the backup jobs for each shared folder... And why is coping to ntfs faster than coping to ext* drives? Strange... Best, Mike14KViews0likes29CommentsReadyNAS 6.7.1 and Google Drive Cloud Sync
Bidirectional sync with Google Drive Cloud does not seem to work. On the Bidirectional setting it only syncs from the NAS to Google Drive Cloud but not the other way round. I did some tests with all 3 sync modes: up / down / bidirectional. Even on the down settings it still does not sync from Google Drive Cloud to the NAS. Only the up mode works (NAS to Google Drive Cloud). On other posts/threads I've seen mention of setting the synchronisation check frequency but that does not appear anywhere. Can anyone help?14KViews0likes21Commentsnetgear 424 backup to veeam Refs.setfileintegrity problem
hi all, i have a netgear NAS424 and want to backup with veeam but i have an error. Error: Incorrect function. Agent failed to process method {ReFs.SetFileIntegrity}. nas version: 6.9.4 hotfix1 - but i downgrade 6.9.2 - 6.9.1 - 6.9.0 and 6.8.1 but problem is not solved. is there any solution for this problem?Solved14KViews0likes3Comments
Backup not complete again
I purchased my RN104 this week. It is a very nice NAS box for its price. It came with OS6.2 out of the box. I updated it to 6.22 then set it up with 3 - 4TB drives in raid5 and let it run over night building the array. Yesterday morning it was going to take 30+ hours to finish building the array. So I started backing up the home media server, a Javelin S4 that has 3 - 4TB drives in raid5 with ~4.5TB of data. It has about 600 DVD iso files and each has 2 small files for a total of 1800+ files. I setup a backup job on the RN104 and got it running. I was pleasantly surprised to see the backup moving at 1TB/8hrs. I used NFS to setup the backup job since both boxes are Linux. This morning when I checked, the backup was complete! Well not really. The RN104 showed about 1.2TB copied. I started the backup job again and it promptly ran through its sequence and pronounced the second backup complete without doing anything. So I removed the 1200+ small files and started the backup job again. It is now, again copying the iso files. I'll add back the smaller files later. While the backup job is running I turned to google and found others having the same issue. OS6.2/6.22 set the NFS thread count to 8. I changed it to one and the web interface became slow to respond. Next I set the NFS thread count at 2 and the web interface seems "normal" again. For a dedicated home media server, what is a good number for NFS thread count?14KViews0likes16Comments
