Backing up Freenas data to external USB drive

[Dragoncoder]

I have an external usb drive connected to the freenas system at a USB 2.0 interface. The drive is ntfs formatted. I want to backup some specific datasets to this external drive.
I am successfully able to mount the drive and able to write to the drive. I use an script to load the appropriate module and mount the device. Here is the output.

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# /mnt/Volume1/pkt/backup.sh
not loaded already, loading fuse module
fuse module loaded successfully
creating directory /mnt/usbext
mounting /dev/da1s1 at /mnt/usbext
successfully mounted
[root@freenas ~]# cd /mnt/usbext
[root@freenas /mnt/usbext]# touch abc
[root@freenas /mnt/usbext]# echo "abc" > abc
[root@freenas /mnt/usbext]# ll
total 10
drwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel - 4096 May 3 00:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel - 512 May 3 00:18 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel - 4 May 3 00:18 abc*
[root@freenas /mnt/usbext]# cat abc
abc
[root@freenas /mnt/usbext]#

However, if I issue command "rsync -a --progress /mnt/Volume1/media/Picture/Oakwood /mnt/usbext" , it just hangs forever. The directory /mnt/Volume1/media/Picture/Oakwood is only a few MBs so the size of data is not an issue.

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# rsync -a --progress /mnt/Volume1/media/Picture/Oakwood/ /mnt/usbext 
sending incremental file list

After it hangs, I opened another tab in my browser and conntected to the freenas system. Guess what, the drive is not mounted, the fuse module is not loaded and the directory /mnt/usbext does not exist. For reference, I am uploading my backup.sh which are plan to setup as a cronjob (once I get this manual backup working).

Thank you all very much in advance for all your help.

 

[warri]

The NTFS driver included in FreeNAS is not suitable for writing operations, and should only be used to read data.
Use a different file system or attach the USB disk to a Windows system and copy the data over network.

This is somehow covered in the FreeNAS manual, where it states that NTFS should only be used to import data.