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Very disappointed with backup feature of 6.X
I've owned a 104 device for a while now and have just installed a 314 device at a customer. Once the customer was up and running I started the process of deploying a simple backup solution - after...
The utility is indeed limited, except if you Wireshark directly on the target interface, but this would require access to the NAS. Since there is no SSH standard user by default this would require root access, once you have that you don't really need to listen...
Could also be a spoof protection (like HTTPS), since there is a key exchange if key stored are not matching there will be an error, but this would mean that another device has got the same IP, and I believe that since this is a local interface it would also require that the interface is down (not sure the device will look on the network if it has this IP on one of its interfaces).
I also feel that backing up on the same device is not really useful anymore with snapshots. And if MD5 is enabled on top of that I don't see any use at all.
As for the Backup feature I'm not happy with it either. I had to exclude files matching a pattern inside a share, I wanted detailed logging, and the remote device only has SMB (no SSH/Rsync). Didn't have the courage to finish my script yet so checking is manual for the moment. I'm also thinking about checking the ressources usage (CPU/RAM mainly) before launching the script. Setting firewall temporary settings is also possible.
Scripting is definitely an option for your backups if you are not satisfied by shipped backup features.
Could also be a spoof protection (like HTTPS), since there is a key exchange if key stored are not matching there will be an error, but this would mean that another device has got the same IP, and I believe that since this is a local interface it would also require that the interface is down (not sure the device will look on the network if it has this IP on one of its interfaces).
I also feel that backing up on the same device is not really useful anymore with snapshots. And if MD5 is enabled on top of that I don't see any use at all.
As for the Backup feature I'm not happy with it either. I had to exclude files matching a pattern inside a share, I wanted detailed logging, and the remote device only has SMB (no SSH/Rsync). Didn't have the courage to finish my script yet so checking is manual for the moment. I'm also thinking about checking the ressources usage (CPU/RAM mainly) before launching the script. Setting firewall temporary settings is also possible.
Scripting is definitely an option for your backups if you are not satisfied by shipped backup features.
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