copying data to NTFS USB drive

[Ian Bennett]

I have an old FreeNAS 9.10 system that's been in use for years. My Windows clients have mapped drives to the root of the data and all works perfectly. However, I'd like to dump quite a large amount of data to an external USB drive formatted to NTFS so it can be connected to any Windows PC.

I know I can connect the USB drive to my laptop and dump the data that way, but it will be over the LAN. Is there any way to mount an external USB drive r/w to FreeNAS and copy that way?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Jailer]

Is there any way to mount an external USB drive r/w to FreeNAS and copy that way?

No.

 

[Apollo]

Well, it might actually be possible.
If the disk was imported via the GUI, Freenas would copy the content of the NTFS drive to a new dataset on the Freenas pool using rsync, so it is sensible to think mounting the disk under CLI (not GUI as it will force the backing of the disk) and performing rsync from one dataset to the NTFS root directory or within a folder should be possible.