Backup to USB Drive

[omicronkappa278]

I have a Buffalo NAS Linkstation LS-CHL-V2 (500GB)

I also have a Buffale USB drive (500GB) plugged into it.

 

My plan was to have an incremental backup run each day to the USB drive from the main linkstation for have a backup. It starts running as normal when it is scheduled. It is set to backup both shares I have to the USB Drive... It runs, but It never seems to actually get a full backup. The NAs Navigator shows the Main Linkstation at 162/451GB or 35% and the USB shows as 20/465GB... It has run two nights and never has happened yet.

[PCPiranha]

What backup type do you have setup?

 

Overwrite Backup

Saves as "_backups\sourcename\data". Does a complete backup every time, if a file is on the destination that is not on the source, it will not be deleted.

 

 Overwrite Backup (Complete/Differential):

Saves as "_backups\sourcename\data". Does a complete backup every time, if a file is on the destination that is not on the source, it will be deleted.

 

 Overwrite Backup (Append):

Saves as "_backups\sourcename\data". Does a complete backup the first time, subsequent backups only send the changes. If a file is on the destination that is not on the source, it will not be deleted.

 

 Overwrite Backup (Differential):

Saves as "_backups\sourcename\data". Does a complete backup the first time, subsequent backups only send the changes. If a file is on the destination that is not on the source, it will be deleted.

[omicronkappa278]

Incremental...

 

But it was Formatted at FAT32, I am thinking I had files over 4GB... May have been it. I am going to try to Reformat at XFS... What do you think?

[PCPiranha]

It's definately worth a try although if that were the issue I would think that you would have had an error and/or corruption by this point.