Network Storage Challenges

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This is a x3000, latest released 4.0 firmware 2024-06-15
I have a USB-C based SSD (256GB)
I formatted this with NTFS and during boot process it was recognized as /dev/sdb1 and mounted as disk2_part1. (I have a sdcard for /dev/sda1 mounted on disk1_part1).

I enabled Samba and created a share.

My goal is to remotely save files to this network shared drive.

I used rsync between a remote linux pc and x3000. I have about 170GB to copy from pc to x3000. I installed rsync on x3000 as well.
Once the rsync starts, it will work for a while and then stop and quit with multiple errors.
rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at io.c(848) [sender=3.2.7]
rsync error: received SIGUSR1 (code 19) at main.c(1613) [generator=3.2.7]

I also tried another option, where i mounted x3000:/tmp/mountd/disk2_part1/ to a local drive on the linux pc using its /etc/fstab
Now i could just use cp command, but it too fails after a while with error (soryy i didn't capture the error)

Later i saw the USB SSD drive unmounted (i didn't unmount it). So i had to unplug and then plug it back to the USB port of x3000. It was recognized again.

It seems like the firmware has some problem as it unmounts itself and then neither rsync not cp can work.

Can you please help?

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The file share function is more a nice add-on than a NAS replacement.

170GB in one file will behave different from 170gb in small files.
There should be something like /bar/log/samba that maybe give a hint what is the cause for the break.

In my opinion the best solution is to attatch the hard drive to the PC, transfer the file and the router will provide them to all network devices.
If you plan to upload regularly 170 GB, a real NAS is maybe the better solution.

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