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"OS6" - a question or three
First, a direct question: I'm currently running my Pro BE's with 5 or 6 disks using "x-raid2" and "dual redundancy." (RAID6 with the xraid2 expansion scheme.) I downloaded the manual for one of...
Okay.. being somewhat patient. (I'm playing with various things while waiting.)
I seem to have hit a stumbling block: USB. I had one particular share backed up to a USB HDD, so plugged that in on the front port and created a backup job to copy from the front USB to the re-created share. The job failed saying it couldn't find the source. (The drive was mounted to /media/USB_HDD_1 and to /run/nfs4/media/USB_HDD_1. I was able to see the files just fine in ssh, and by using the shares that the OS6 automatically created.)
Seeing that problem, I decided to see what would happen if I plugged in a different USB drive, reformatted, etc. However, I can't find any options for formatting usb devices! They just blindly get mounted. That, by the way, is VERY BAD. If I have data on a secure share (limited visibility and tight access controls) that I back up to an external USB device, it's VERY BAD that the USB drive used as the backup is shared with EVERYONE automatically. (Honestly, I don't want my USB stuff shared unless I specially tell it to!)
So, I dived into the OS6 software manual (and the readynas 516 hardware manual) to see what I could find for USB options. What I found was... pretty much nothing. The USB ports exist. There's no documentation on how to manipulate them, format devices, or anything else.
Can someone please enlighten me on if it's possible with OS6 to attach a USB drive WITHOUT having it shared, reformat the drive, and use that USB drive as either the source or destination of a backup job?
Thank you
Gary
I seem to have hit a stumbling block: USB. I had one particular share backed up to a USB HDD, so plugged that in on the front port and created a backup job to copy from the front USB to the re-created share. The job failed saying it couldn't find the source. (The drive was mounted to /media/USB_HDD_1 and to /run/nfs4/media/USB_HDD_1. I was able to see the files just fine in ssh, and by using the shares that the OS6 automatically created.)
Seeing that problem, I decided to see what would happen if I plugged in a different USB drive, reformatted, etc. However, I can't find any options for formatting usb devices! They just blindly get mounted. That, by the way, is VERY BAD. If I have data on a secure share (limited visibility and tight access controls) that I back up to an external USB device, it's VERY BAD that the USB drive used as the backup is shared with EVERYONE automatically. (Honestly, I don't want my USB stuff shared unless I specially tell it to!)
So, I dived into the OS6 software manual (and the readynas 516 hardware manual) to see what I could find for USB options. What I found was... pretty much nothing. The USB ports exist. There's no documentation on how to manipulate them, format devices, or anything else.
Can someone please enlighten me on if it's possible with OS6 to attach a USB drive WITHOUT having it shared, reformat the drive, and use that USB drive as either the source or destination of a backup job?
Thank you
Gary
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