Good morning-
I'm having an issue where my router seems to "crash" when replicating data between two HDDs that are attached to my router. Basically, I have two 4TB HDDs, one hooked to each USB port on my ASUS RT-AC68U. Data is written from devices on my LAN through a share to DRIVE1, then I have an rsync script that runs via a cron job to replicate data from DRIVE1 to DRIVE2 (mostly backup data). My backup retention policies have reached their maximum level, so I've increased from needing to replicate 10GB a day to 200GB, but I don't think this is an unreasonable amount of data to copy between two drives. This increased amount of data means that my replication script runs for about 6 hours (instead of 15 minutes) and has started to result in the router becoming unstable - no internet connectivity, wifi seems to remain available, but sometimes I'm not able to connect to my router via internal IP address, etc.
I'm just speculating that the replication is what's causing the issue and would welcome any assistance that might point me in a different direction, or confirm my suspicions. I'm also open to suggestions as to a better configuration, but would ask that those not be things along the lines of "buy a NAS enclosure and put drives in it" as that's not in the budget at this time.
Thank you!
I'm having an issue where my router seems to "crash" when replicating data between two HDDs that are attached to my router. Basically, I have two 4TB HDDs, one hooked to each USB port on my ASUS RT-AC68U. Data is written from devices on my LAN through a share to DRIVE1, then I have an rsync script that runs via a cron job to replicate data from DRIVE1 to DRIVE2 (mostly backup data). My backup retention policies have reached their maximum level, so I've increased from needing to replicate 10GB a day to 200GB, but I don't think this is an unreasonable amount of data to copy between two drives. This increased amount of data means that my replication script runs for about 6 hours (instead of 15 minutes) and has started to result in the router becoming unstable - no internet connectivity, wifi seems to remain available, but sometimes I'm not able to connect to my router via internal IP address, etc.
I'm just speculating that the replication is what's causing the issue and would welcome any assistance that might point me in a different direction, or confirm my suspicions. I'm also open to suggestions as to a better configuration, but would ask that those not be things along the lines of "buy a NAS enclosure and put drives in it" as that's not in the budget at this time.
Thank you!
