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Title: Backups don't work
Post by: Cliff on June 08, 2009, 06:18:00 AM

nfo:

Hardware Version: B1
Firmware Version: 1.08
Software Version (Easy Search): not used / browser

Harddrive 1: Seagate    ST31000340AS    9QJ1Y1QC    1000 G
Harddrive 2: Seagate    ST31000340AS    9QJ1TFC4    1000 G

Problem Type: Backups don't Work

Error message: Red X on backup status
Function does not work
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Running Vista64.
Enter an incremental folder backup on a test folder that is shared.
Username/password entered
Clicking 'Test' returns a successful result.

Save the backup job and click green run icon. Backup Fails.
Any ideas/suggestions please?

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: Cliff on June 09, 2009, 08:12:38 AM

anyone?

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: klein on June 09, 2009, 08:19:07 AM

Hey Cliff,

i had the same issues and was told D-Link is going to look into it.  If you need to do a backup in the mean time, just do a regular backup, it will take longer but at least it will be backed up

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: shihkuang on June 09, 2009, 12:17:38 PM

Hi Klein,

Did D-Link tell you when they will fix this problem? or any schedule for the 1.08 stable?

Thank you

Anthony

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: klein on June 09, 2009, 04:24:48 PM

nope not at all, i posted a thread about the backups not working and they said it would be fixed in the stable version of f/w 1.08 whenever that may be

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: Cliff on June 10, 2009, 05:45:15 AM

Thanks Klein,
At least DLink has acknowledged the defect. I hope it gets fixed.

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: Cliff on July 02, 2009, 06:14:16 AM

I noticed the failing backup problem is not on the beta bug list. Is this in fact a confirmed bug by DLink?

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: Cliff on July 03, 2009, 07:19:56 AM

Does anyone have backups working? I have tried with a variety of PC's, XP and Vista and nothing works. Doesn't seem to matter if incremental is off or on. Testing the account settings works, but backups fail.

I consider this a core feature of a NAS, I really wish it worked.

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: fordem on July 06, 2009, 07:43:08 AM

Uhh - yes - I have used (at different times) BackupExec & Windows SyncToy to backup to my NAS, both work well except for the speed - SyncToy backs up as individual files, so if you are backing up a few thousand small files, throughput is dismally slow, BackupExec on the other hand builds 1GB blocks so that works reasonably well.

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: Cliff on July 12, 2009, 09:24:01 AM

Thanks Fordem. I was looking for a sol'n where the 323 would pull files from the computer. Ideally, pick a folder and exclude certain subfolders and that would sync to a folder on the DNS-323. I've tried setting up a sync, and it fails immediately without copying a single file.

In the meantime, I'm using something GFI Backup which seems like a pretty impressive program; and it's free.

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: ttmcmurry on July 12, 2009, 08:46:02 PM

I've *heard* the possibility of D-Link adding rsync to the DNS-323 but that doesn't really help you out in a Windows environment.  Of course you can also accomplish this with ffp, but that's outside the scope of this forum. 

Let me make an observation, however.  The DNS-323 itself does not have the ability to be a host-initiated backup device.  The clients (i.e. your computer(s)) need to initiate the data transaction to the DNS-323.  Most NAS are designed to be a target to store data to, not initiate backup jobs.  That is what software and/or servers are designed to do.  BackupExec, GFI, and Acronis True Image work in this fashion.

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: Cliff on July 14, 2009, 12:45:56 PM

I've installed GFI and I'm working with that. It has its own issues, but so far it seems to work pretty well.

Title: Re: Backups don't work
Post by: Banshee1971 on July 21, 2009, 03:19:55 PM

this backup function from one drive to the other never work for me... it was "seemlike working", but i notice some folder not uploading from one drive to the other.

The absence of a LOGFILE can't help diagnose where it goes wrong. A simple TXT file, like what's already available on the Buffalo NAS can help a lot (it said wich file transfert, and wich one not transfer).