Wjat do these files mean?
Hi,
I have a Qnap NAS and have taken an image of it to a Win 10x64 PC. ext drive.
I see it has added files since I did it but not sure of the numbers now.
The drive is only 2TB so surely the image cannot be larger than that, or maybe?
When it says 'Full' does it mean that everything before that date can be deleted if one wants to without losing the latest
Full' image?
Also for me to access the image, do I have to put it in a Linux or can I see files etc in the PC.
Thank you
Attachment | Size |
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Qnap True image.JPG | 40.79 KB |


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Thank you Steve.
I'm a little puzzled over the big chnage in size and I guess the only way to see is to mount the image.
They are on a Win 10 PC but the image is from Qnap NAS Linux.
What is the best way to mount it?
If I attached a new 2TB drive to the PC, could I mount it that way or does the new empty drive it have to be attached to a Linux box ?
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I suspect that it is not possible to mount the backup as the file system is not one recognised by Windows. Steve Smith knows more about this sort of thing than I do.
Ian
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David, if I select my own NAS as the Source for a backup, what I see is a Files & Folders backup listing of source content, not a disk and partitions view, which is as I expected.
Only backups containing partitions can be mounted, and Linux partitions are not handled by Explorer in Windows without the use of third-party utilities to handle the Linux filesystems in use!
So, your QNAP backup will be of Files & Folders, cannot be mounted (no partitions contained) and you can simply double-click on the backup archive file in Explorer to see the contents.
Given the recent malware infecting QNAP NAS devices, check that your data has not been turned into encrypted zip files, and don't delete your older backup files until you understand why there is such a large difference in size?
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