Backing up data to NTFS USB SSD drive

[Tripwire999]

Hi,

I know it's not very commong and not advised to do, but since for some reason copying from network is really really slow at the moment. I would like to mount my NTFS formatted USB SSD drive in the root shell and backup some data. I found a couple of really old posts about this but I'm running into some issues. Apparently I need to load fuse which I can't load because it can't be found (I'm running TrueNas 13.0-U4).
I run the command:

kldload fuse

I get an error saying:

kldload: Can't load fuse: No such file or directory

When using ntfs-3g like this:

ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb-ssd

I get an error saying:

Failed to open fuse device: No such file or direcotry

The drive shows up in Disks as da0 and when I want to import the disk I see it available as /dev/da0s1

 

[Tripwire999]

I just figured out what's wrong, it's called fusefs instead of fuse :). Though I seem to be able to write to the disk now I get some input output errors when removing a folder I created. This is probably why it's not a good idea to write to NTFS drives right?

 

[sretalla]

This is probably why it's not a good idea to write to NTFS drives right?

Not specifically, but maybe also that.

It's just not something that the developers of the appliance intend to be done with that appliance, so anything that goes wrong is somehow "expected", since it was never planned/tested to work when managing the code.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

@Tripwire999 : Are you copying a large number of tiny files? That tends to run slow over the network if not using Windows Explorer, and depending on the update chain on the Windows box (and many other factors) the Windows box can slow way, way down. (It's a "feature.")

To address your other issue, ....yeah, it seems TrueNAS likes ZFS and everything else could be iffy....TrueNAS is an "appliance" and works really well if used as intended but goes squirrley if poked at too much. (I don't run VMs or do anything other than run it as a pure NAS and it has been really, really solid.)