Hi,
Fresh install of OMV 3.0.96, nothing installed except for the USB backup plugin. External NTFS drive connected via USB.
When using the USB Backup plugin to copy one of my shares to an NTFS drive I get the message "The synchronisation has completed succesfully".
However when I take the drive and plug it into my windows PC some of the directorys aren't accescible and throw the error "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Sometimes for other folders windows tells me to take ownership of a folder in order to open it but when I do that they also become unreadable.
When I try to backup to a FAT32 drive, I also get the succesful message but nothing is copied (in the log's there is a mention of not being able to "chown" files).
I searched the forums and google and found some people who advise not to backup to NTFS or FAT32 via RSync due to file system differences. However others (including volker, the creator of the plugin and OMV) say that it shouldn't be a problem and claim to do it regularly. I would like to gather some more advice on this.
Secondly I would like some advice on importing media from an NTFS drive using the plugin, would this be safe to do?
Last question: some people advice using WinSCP as an alternative to directly copy files to an attached NTFS drive on OMV. When I try to do this I get the question to open another shell because direct copying is not supported in the current one. The coppying starts but after a few moments the connection seems to get lost and so does the coppying. Is there a solution for this? (I tried turning off the optimize connection buffer setting of WinSCP).
Thanks a lot for any advice / solutions / opinions you guys are willing to give me. I'm at a loss trying to find a reliable way to directly backup my files to an external (prefferably NTFS) drive over USB.