Hello, I have approx 4tb of data on my synology. I connected a 3.0 USB external hard drive and using Hyper Backup. The backup status is only at 13% and its day 7. Any ideas? Is there a better external device to use? I didn’t even select encryption or compression.
The transfer rates are 20 times worse than USB 2.0 so something odd is going on.
- Are you sure you are connected using a USB 3.0 cable (blue connectors)?
- Have you tried testing your external drive’s performance using CrystalDiskMark or similar? It would help narrow down the source of the bottleneck.
Thank you for the reply. Yes, I did confirm blue cables. I’ll give the test software a try. The drive is a WD Easystore that I used in the past and just formatted.
Which NAS are you backing up? If you’re using one with a 3.0 or 3.1 USB your speed maxes out at 5GB and drops — significantly — if you are backing up small or small+large mixed file sizes. Additionally, the initial indexing can take a very, very long time. Fwiw, we saw the same thing backing up 4TB of data to a USB 3 drive as you’re seeing. Patience. Go on vacation. If it’s not done in a couple of weeks, check the status.
Thank you for the reply. Somebody suggested on another forum that I investigate whether or not I’m using an SMR hard drive, which I believe I am. I’m in the process of completely formatting the drive and will try again to see if things speed up.
Not sure why this happens as i am new to synology, but when i initially set up backups to usb it was dead slow.
What i did i i just split the backups to 3 drives:
1 has just my media files (movie) as simple backup, takes a while as it has a lot of movies, but there is no need for versions.
2 has my working/data files including photos, for that i want to have rotation on but the data size is smaller.
3 has docker folder and applications, this is the smallest on 1T usb with few versions included.
What i noticed first while trying, was that having apps backed up with data made the backup extremely slow.
Made me suspect it updated the files list during the backup.
Anyway i got them done in decent time this way.
[edit] ps.
also rename your usb drives to something like usbbackup1 or something descriptive or basicly anything else that usbshare1 BEFORE making the backup task or you may have a problem later if you mount the usb and gets automaticly changed to usbshare2 and hyperbackup does not id the target drive.
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