Second try to NAS -- another failure

[d-v-c]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Whether that's physical damage to the NAS drive, networking issues, protocol issues, etc -- I just don't know.

It seems some NAS use FAT32 but have built-in driver that breaks big files into chunks of no more than 4GB each. Supposedly this breaks dmg images. Perhaps that is what's happening here. EN2/3 works with files but perhaps not images.

[dnanian]

It's possible. What brand of drive is this?

[d-v-c]

Originally Posted by dnanian

It's possible. What brand of drive is this?

http://www.iomega.com/support/manual...rive/main.html

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The file system used on these types of Iomega network hard drives is EXT3.

No complaints found on google about this drive.

[dnanian]

And you're using SMB to talk to it?

[d-v-c]

Originally Posted by dnanian

And you're using SMB to talk to it?

Yes -- you recommend I try this.

While we sort this out, for safety, if I copied /user/steve to the NAS -- would OS X copy everything?

In a worse case situation I can always restore the sys and applications. It's my data I worry about.

[dnanian]

Just wanted to be sure.

As far as using Finder to copy, sure, you could likely copy directly to the drive.