Backup and Restore • Re: Read USB Copy Backup outside TOS?

For the internal drives from the TNAS:

First, RAID mirroring is not a backup.

Windows doesn't natively include the ability to read and write to EXT× & BTRFS file systems; either (purchase &) install a program that can interface with those, install Windows Subsystem for Linux if using a version of Windows with support for the feature (which requires virtualization capabilities to add it), or temporarily boot into a live Linux distribution to access these drives.

For the external drive used with the TNAS:

TOS only supports the following file systems externally:

• EXT3

• EXT4

• NTFS

• FAT32

• HFS+

Since it currently cannot be read in Windows, it's likely not NTFS or FAT32, so try macOS for the very latter (if having access to a Mac), otherwise it's likely formatted as EXT× & requires one of the solutions for the internal drives above to read it.

If at least 3•2•1 was in place, the off-site backup could have been to a cloud service which could likely be able to real-time sync, leaving this as a minimal downtime situation right now if granting temporary access to that is possible.

Statistics: Posted by crisisacting — 50 minutes ago

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