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akbeer
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Jan 22, 2025
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Amazon S3 not sync for ReadyNAS home directories

I have a ReadyNAS 2304 that has been syncing a share to an Amazon S3 bucket for a few years. This has worked well. I recently configured a second session on the ReadyNAS to sync the user home directo...
  • Sandshark's avatar
    Sandshark
    Jan 22, 2025

    Home "directories" are actually BTRFS sub-volumes if properly created by the OS.  They are only created automatically after the first time the user logs in.  So if you created a user and then, not finding the home directories, manually created them as standard directories, that could be the issue.  Once you created them, the OS could no longer create the sub-volumes because there would be a name conflict.

     

    There is a command available via SSH to force creation of home directories, it's mkhomedir_helper.

     

    See if btrft subvolume list /home shows them as subvolumes.  If it doesn't, you can move the incorrectly created directories elsewhere, properly create hem, and then copy the contents of the old ones to the new ones.

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