Duplicate tracks after backup of Synology to External drive

Posted by: pixies on 24 February 2016

Following on from the 'Backing up the NAS drive topic' I have backed up/copied all of my music which is currently on my Synology DS212j NAS to an external hard drive, following the steps laid out by Synology for 'back up and replication'. I usually back up new music from my laptop to an external hard drive after ripping CDs via dbPoweramp or downloading music the likes of Qobuz.

However, using this (new to me) method I see duplicate tracks for all artists/albums contained within the external drive (a 2TB WD My Passport Ultra). ie within each album folder each track appears twice!

I stream my music using Minimserver UPnP and all track are shown correctly whith no duplication.

I have searched online etc but cannot find any solution to this (The Synology forum is not very good for getting replies)

Can anyone help or shed some light on what basics I may be doing wrong?

Posted on: 26 February 2016 by Mike-B

NO ----------- the WD Passport comes ready formatted in NTFS for all Windows systems from XP onwards. It only requires reformatting for Mac OS X. Also its preloaded with a lot of info & op system, so blindly reformatting will zap all that very useful stuff.

Yes (of course) DSM supports NTFS. I'm not sure what or why your external backup does not have this, but please be assured that Pixes (& my) WD Passport - the OP subject - backup works perfectly.

Posted on: 26 February 2016 by Eloise

gert posted:
Ok, thank you for clarifying this. So the recommendation for Pixies is to reformat the external disc as either ext4fs or NTFS. (Is NTFS supported by DSM btw?)

No, the recommendation is that Pixies (and anyone else with similar situation) just ignores the .files.

If you reformat your external disk as ext4 then you will have to install third party software on Windows to get it to be read. And the drive is already formatted as NTFS.