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RN314 scheduled snapshots not working on some shares
Hi I have had smart snapshots enabled for years on my 314. Recently the scheduled snapshots on my main Projects share stopped working. It seems that all of the old snapshots are gone (no harm done)...
david_spittle wrote:
There doesn’t appear to be anything in the log when the hourly snapshot is meant to occur. It simply does nothing.
Are you running "smart" snapshots or "custom"?
Hi
Using Smart snapshots.
Using Smart snapshots.
david_spittle wrote:
Using Smart snapshots.I'm wondering if switching to "custom" might work??? FWIW, I stopped using the smart snapshots long ago. The monthly ones are never deleted, so eventually they fill the volume. So I switched to custom, where I can specify retention, and only take snapshots when the share changes.
I think that if you created a second share, then doing an rsync backup job to copy it (setting the destination network address to 127.0.0.1) should preserve the folder permissions. Or use ssh, and specify --reflink in the CP command.
Hi
I've created a new share as the other approaches didn't fix the snapshots.
Would you mind helping me with what I need to type to do this and retain timestamps? I tried running a backup job but the timestamps are set to today's date. This will make aws backup everything again, and I have versioning enabled in the cloud.
I also tried to set up remote rsync over SSH using the backup panel in the admin interface but it promted for a public SSH key.
I also tried copying the settings from an old rsync backup but that was going to a USB port on the back. I hit all buttons that seemed logical but no cigar.
I'm assuming I need to ssh into the nas?
Something like this? I wasn't keen on just trying it as this is my most important data.
ssh root@192.168.1.40 then type the admin password rsync -a --reflink ~/PROJECTS_NAS/ root@192.168.1.40:~/PROJECTS_NAS_2/Thanks
david_spittle wrote:
ssh root@192.168.1.40 then type the admin password
rsync -a --reflink ~/PROJECTS_NAS/ root@192.168.1.40:~/PROJECTS_NAS_2/rsync doesn't have a --reflink option. Use
cp --reflink -rp /data/PROJECTS_NAS/* /data/PROJECTS_NAS_2/That will preserve ownership, permissions, and timestamps.
If you want to see progress as it copies, then use
cp --reflink -rpv /data/PROJECTS_NAS/* /data/PROJECTS_NAS_2/You can then rename the shares from the admin web ui, and delete the original share after you've confirmed that everything is ok.
david_spittle wrote:I wasn't keen on just trying it as this is my most important data.
Hopefully you have a backup plan in place for the NAS.
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