The specified capacity has exceeded the maximum

[OneCD]

… and is your external drive recognised as a USB3 device?

[Mdheft]

how many files ....lots of little files?

is dedupe active ?

48051 files. This is part of my plex media so music is definitely lots of little files.
I need to check on dedupe, I dont recall seeing that anywhere.

Yes qudedup is active. It says it will speed up transfer... is that not true?

[Mdheft]

… and is your external drive recognised as a USB3 device?

Yes, shows as usb 3.2 gen1

[dolbyman]

dedupe needs an SSD Volume for HBS, lots of RAM and a fast NAS CPU

redo the job without dedupe (does a plain file backup) and see how that goes

[Mdheft]

dedupe needs an SSD Volume for HBS, lots of RAM and a fast NAS CPU

redo the job without dedupe (does a plain file backup) and see how that goes

redone and it is at 20 hours and climbing. Tolerable but still seems abnormally slow.

2:32:00 per TB

[Mdheft]

69MB/s 28 hours and 15 minutes.

I am hoping someone can help with my question now that I went down this road for backup.
As I mentioned I am backing up plex media files and I plan on backing up every couple of months. I will be adding and removing files from my plex media folders on the qnap in that time. Is there a way for hbs 3 to just sync those changes so I dont have to go through a week of copying my files every time or if I start the job will it just copy everything again?
I am using external usb drives that I will be storing off site.
Thanks !

[dolbyman]

Thats what my plain file backups do..only sync the changes made

[ritters]

Is there a way for hbs 3 to just sync those changes so I dont have to go through a week of copying my files every time or if I start the job will it just copy everything again?

That's why I gave up using HBS3 and switched over to Syncovery!

[Mdheft]

Is there a way for hbs 3 to just sync those changes so I dont have to go through a week of copying my files every time or if I start the job will it just copy everything again?

That's why I gave up using HBS3 and switched over to Syncovery!

I just tried it and as expected dolbyman is correct. I added a file to one of my music folders, ran the backup job and only one file was added to my backup.

[Mdheft]

Is there any way around the 64 folder limit?

[dolbyman]

please explain what you mean

[Mdheft]

I was starting another backup today on my movie media. The movie folder is 16tb so I was selecting 8tb of them to backup for this external drive. I think I had selected 74 of them and when I went to start the job I got an error message stating that there was a limit of 64 folders not including subfolders for this job...

[dolbyman]

I backup shares, so the subfolder count does not matter I guess

[Mdheft]

Ok, got a couple of used tr-004 to use for backup. Should I use jbod or raid 0?

[dolbyman]

If the disks are ll the same size, I quote the TR004 manual

https://download.qnap.com/Storage/Techn ... -en-us.pdf

Unless you have a specific reason to use
JBOD, use RAID 0 instead.

But be aware, if a single disk has a single error, your backup are busted