It is the stock firmware on both NAS units. I used the buffalo web console to setup the backup job.
I couldn't get the TS3400 to see a TS-XEL (that was running Debian) as a backup destination. So I had to load the stock firmware onto the TS-XEL. After that, the TS3400 saw it as a backup destination target.
Is there a way to make the source stock firmware be able to see debian as a destination target? No matter what I tried, I couldn't get the debian box to show up in the target destination list.
I have no idea how to view the syslog or dmesg, either with the stock firmware, or with debian. How can this be done?
I don't recall if the debian on the TS-XEL supports the smartmontools.
The TS-XEL stock firmware definitely can't read smart data.
That's going to present future problems possibly.
ACP Commander v1.5.6.0 started
Sending discovery request...
Found new LinkStation 192.168.0.82
Found new LinkStation 192.168.0.182
Authenticate EnOneCmd... OK
Authenticate with admin pw... OK
smartctl version 5.37 [arm-none-linux-gnueabi] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/Device: Seagate ST4000DM004-2CV1 Version: 0001
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Thu Mar 19 00:35:16 2020 CDT
Device does not support SMART
Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging
All the disks are basically new.
One disk is new
The other 3 are new recertified RMA replacements.
And they're all the same model above.
All the disks were write surface tested before I setup the array. And there were no problems when I tested each one of them, one at a time. All the smart data was good before I tried this anyway.
I'll will try to get them pulled and check the smart data on a windows box.
The good news is that it did complete the restarted backup job successfully anyway.
-------- BEGIN BACKUP 2020/03/17 18:21:49 array1/TERA-3400-D1 -> TERA-XEL@array1/TERA-XEL-D1 --------
sent 2,934,251,136,524 bytes received 2,969,508 bytes 20,866,474.70 bytes/sec
total size is 15,089,877,702,720 speedup is 5.14
-------- END BACKUP 2020/03/19 09:25:30 array1/TERA-3400-D1 -> TERA-XEL@array1/TERA-XEL-D1 --------