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Which drives to get for new ReadyNas?
So I need a new NAS. This is going to be expensive... TL:DR at bottom of post A bit of background info first. I have an NVX Business edition that I've had for a little over 2 years. I got it wit...
OK. Lets try this setup, using Frontview in FF please.
On the new NV+ (192.168.0.11) set up a new backup job.
For the source - select Remote:NFS Server
For the host - 192.168.0.10
For the path - test
Leave the rest of the job blank (assuming you do not have any passwords set up on the original NAS).
Open a new window by clicking on the source NAS (192.168.0.10) in RAIDar and then click on setup. Once Frontview has opened, click on the shares button in the left hand menu. Then click on share listing. In the listing for test, click on NFS and then in the next window, for default access click on either read/write or
read only. Then in the lower section for share access restrictions, in the appropriate blank (either for read only or root privilege-enabled hosts) enter the target NAS IP (192.168.0.11). Then click on the rsync tab at the top of the window and repeat for rsync. Then, click on apply. Please bear with me and try this, but I am not finished.
At this point, click back on the tab for the destination NV+ (192.168.0.11) and in the upper section listing the settings in the upper part of this post, click on test connection. It should successfully connect.
Then in the lower section, in the first blank, in the pull down menu, choose Share:test. Then click on apply.
Click on the backup job button in the left hand pull down menu. You should now be back at the listing of backup jobs. Your new backup job should be listed. On the right hand side, click on the "GO" button and it should run.
When it finishes, modify the backup job so that in the first box it now has Remote:Rsync Server. Verify that the Host is still 192.168.0.10, and path is test.
Then click on apply, then click on backup jobs to get back to the listing and then on Go for this backup job. This is the verification of the NFS backup.
For the initial backup, NFS is far faster than rsync, but for incremental backups, rsync is far far faster. Rsync performs a synchronization of the files between two NAS units set up to use rsync (not all do). For the three rsync jobs I have set up to synchronize three shares between my NAS2 (NVX) and my NAS3 (NV+) they ran between 7 and 21 seconds. This is primarily due to the fact that yesterday there were few and minor changes in the files. The longest I have had on recently take is 14 minutes. If you copy the files over manually and then set up the rsync, it can take many hours. The process determines which sectors have changed, and until you run NFS or rsync for the first time, it does not have a file to work against.
I know this works.
On the new NV+ (192.168.0.11) set up a new backup job.
For the source - select Remote:NFS Server
For the host - 192.168.0.10
For the path - test
Leave the rest of the job blank (assuming you do not have any passwords set up on the original NAS).
Open a new window by clicking on the source NAS (192.168.0.10) in RAIDar and then click on setup. Once Frontview has opened, click on the shares button in the left hand menu. Then click on share listing. In the listing for test, click on NFS and then in the next window, for default access click on either read/write or
read only. Then in the lower section for share access restrictions, in the appropriate blank (either for read only or root privilege-enabled hosts) enter the target NAS IP (192.168.0.11). Then click on the rsync tab at the top of the window and repeat for rsync. Then, click on apply. Please bear with me and try this, but I am not finished.
At this point, click back on the tab for the destination NV+ (192.168.0.11) and in the upper section listing the settings in the upper part of this post, click on test connection. It should successfully connect.
Then in the lower section, in the first blank, in the pull down menu, choose Share:test. Then click on apply.
Click on the backup job button in the left hand pull down menu. You should now be back at the listing of backup jobs. Your new backup job should be listed. On the right hand side, click on the "GO" button and it should run.
When it finishes, modify the backup job so that in the first box it now has Remote:Rsync Server. Verify that the Host is still 192.168.0.10, and path is test.
Then click on apply, then click on backup jobs to get back to the listing and then on Go for this backup job. This is the verification of the NFS backup.
For the initial backup, NFS is far faster than rsync, but for incremental backups, rsync is far far faster. Rsync performs a synchronization of the files between two NAS units set up to use rsync (not all do). For the three rsync jobs I have set up to synchronize three shares between my NAS2 (NVX) and my NAS3 (NV+) they ran between 7 and 21 seconds. This is primarily due to the fact that yesterday there were few and minor changes in the files. The longest I have had on recently take is 14 minutes. If you copy the files over manually and then set up the rsync, it can take many hours. The process determines which sectors have changed, and until you run NFS or rsync for the first time, it does not have a file to work against.
I know this works.
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