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dsm1212
Jan 25, 2013Apprentice
Backup jobs won't save
I factory reset my PRO6 about a week ago and just got around to setting up backup jobs again. But when I create a backup job in frontview I get a popup that says backup job 001 created but it's not li...
dsm1212
Jan 25, 2013Apprentice
Never mind. I found it. I had to create an empty file at /etc/cron.d/frontview-backup owned by admin:admin. I have no idea why I didn't have such a file after a clean factory reset. Fortunately I had backed up my root partition before the reset so I found it by taking a look at that. I also noticed that /etc/cron.d/frontview-vol_maint was missing so I added that as well. The only thing I can think of here is that the only "restore" I did was I had backed up using frontview my users and shares config and restored that using frontview so users ID's would not change. Maybe that kind of restore did this?
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