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Backup not working
I haven't run my regular backup jobs for a month. In that time I have: Replaced disk #1 after failure & resynced Replaced disk #2 after failure & resynced Upgraded to version 4 of FrontView N...
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A friend and I got a folder pair to backup using CIFS from the old NV to the new NV+. Ran backup between the two, which went for about 26 hours (190Gb or 2Mb/sec....).
I already a week or so ago had manually copied most files over from the NV to the NV+ when I couldnt get the NV+ backup functionality to work....because it was the classic interocular regression (I had to eyeball it, couldnt drag and drop, thats another story) I may have missed some....and I know I did b/c the file counts were off between source and destination about 200 out of ~113,000 - .18% :-)
Results:
1) 113,829 files in 6,983 folders in source (NV) and 113,605 files in 6,861 folders in destination (NV+) before running backup....our starting point
2) Backup ran ~26 hours during which you could hear both units running, blinking activity lights, etc
3) Backup logs said 'no logs exist for this' all throughout backup until the end. At conclusion, they are now so long, they crash the web browser that tries to access them....indicating apparently thousands and thousands of files copied....I can see at least a few hundred "filename path -> filename path" as I scroll through the first windows before it crashes
4) Despite #3, there is not one difference now after backup to the destination folder....same 113,605 files in 6,861 folders as when I started 26 hours ago....not a single change
Additionally, when setting up access to the the NV folder (which has a user name and pasword ) from the NV+ Backup Scheduler....test connection would always work, provided there was at least one character (hilariously any character!) in the user field...didnt matter what was in password field (it could have been blank or populated with nonsense; didnt matter)....and it never mattered if anything entered in either user or password field was really the right credentials. With at least one character in the user name field, test connection would always say successful
However, ultimately access wasnt allowed until the correct credentials were entered for both - otherwise test connection would say successful and but running the backup would cause the backup to fail immediate for access violation.
However, "admin" had to be the user name for the backup to work, although my machine forces access as " /Guest" and although admin is not actually the username I had used
Lastly, Flexkeeth, Ive never heard from the trouble ticket and logs submitted Sunday
I will post back early next week after I find a few more hours to waste this weekend playing with everything trying to get advertised functionality to work....
A friend and I got a folder pair to backup using CIFS from the old NV to the new NV+. Ran backup between the two, which went for about 26 hours (190Gb or 2Mb/sec....).
I already a week or so ago had manually copied most files over from the NV to the NV+ when I couldnt get the NV+ backup functionality to work....because it was the classic interocular regression (I had to eyeball it, couldnt drag and drop, thats another story) I may have missed some....and I know I did b/c the file counts were off between source and destination about 200 out of ~113,000 - .18% :-)
Results:
1) 113,829 files in 6,983 folders in source (NV) and 113,605 files in 6,861 folders in destination (NV+) before running backup....our starting point
2) Backup ran ~26 hours during which you could hear both units running, blinking activity lights, etc
3) Backup logs said 'no logs exist for this' all throughout backup until the end. At conclusion, they are now so long, they crash the web browser that tries to access them....indicating apparently thousands and thousands of files copied....I can see at least a few hundred "filename path -> filename path" as I scroll through the first windows before it crashes
4) Despite #3, there is not one difference now after backup to the destination folder....same 113,605 files in 6,861 folders as when I started 26 hours ago....not a single change
Additionally, when setting up access to the the NV folder (which has a user name and pasword ) from the NV+ Backup Scheduler....test connection would always work, provided there was at least one character (hilariously any character!) in the user field...didnt matter what was in password field (it could have been blank or populated with nonsense; didnt matter)....and it never mattered if anything entered in either user or password field was really the right credentials. With at least one character in the user name field, test connection would always say successful
However, ultimately access wasnt allowed until the correct credentials were entered for both - otherwise test connection would say successful and but running the backup would cause the backup to fail immediate for access violation.
However, "admin" had to be the user name for the backup to work, although my machine forces access as " /Guest" and although admin is not actually the username I had used
Lastly, Flexkeeth, Ive never heard from the trouble ticket and logs submitted Sunday
I will post back early next week after I find a few more hours to waste this weekend playing with everything trying to get advertised functionality to work....
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