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jawknee
Aug 07, 2011Aspirant
NV+ 2TB Limit - Was Disappointed, Now Happy
I bought an NV+ a couple of years back and was happy to see the improved support for Timemachine. But, with just 2 1TB drives I was limited to ~600GB. I did my research and settled on the Western D...
mdgm-ntgr
Aug 07, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
You don't have to use the SSH add-on. You can install the SSH add-on and then login as root and do it that way if you wish. If you're comfortable with using this, this method would probably be best to do this.
Alternatively you can download the Config Backup (via System > Config Backup > Backup), extract the zip contents and edit the relevant files using an editor that won't muck up the formatting (I recommend using TextEdit on a Mac). Then you can zip up the folders/files you wish to restore again. In this case you'll want to highlight the "etc" folder and create a zip of that and then restore that. If you zip up the folder _READYNAS_CONFIG... then the files in "etc" you be restored to /_READYNAS_CONFIG.../etc which is the wrong location.
Alternatively you can download the Config Backup (via System > Config Backup > Backup), extract the zip contents and edit the relevant files using an editor that won't muck up the formatting (I recommend using TextEdit on a Mac). Then you can zip up the folders/files you wish to restore again. In this case you'll want to highlight the "etc" folder and create a zip of that and then restore that. If you zip up the folder _READYNAS_CONFIG... then the files in "etc" you be restored to /_READYNAS_CONFIG.../etc which is the wrong location.
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