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Backup OS6
I am trying to setup backup jobs to pull files from my Mac OSx machine, from the User, Library, and Application folders, but Permissions are a real bear. The User Folder backup job fails regularly, ...
You are doing this with ordinary ReadyNAS backup jobs? Or are you using time machine?
Thanks, Stephen B.
I am creating backup jobs on the ReadyNAS' network/IP interface, to pull files from the Mac to the 424.
As an aside, one of the main reasons for this project is because of Time Machine's habit of randomly deleting all its backups and starting over.
whartonw wrote:
I am creating backup jobs on the ReadyNAS' network/IP interface, to pull files from the Mac to the 424.
Are you using the MacOS admin credentials in the backup job?
One thing you might try instead is using backup software on the Mac that has an RN424 share as the destination. Something like FreeFileSync.
Hey, Steven
I can't see how to tell the NAS to tell the Mac that I am the Mac admin, but it occurs that I can tell the Mac that the NAS is a user and give it Read permission.
Did not know about FreeFileSync. I'll give it a shot.
Many thanks.
Stay safe.
w
Unless you have the NAS on a power-on time schedule, using backup software on the user side instead of the NAS typically works better, especially for system files. I'm not a Mac user, but I suspect that, like Windows, the OS has to "lock" some files, whjich will prevent an external backup job from copying them. But products that run on the user side instead of the NAS often have provisions to get around that (In Windows, it's a shadow copy).
If you do have the NAS on a time schedule, then that can be a problem. When runnig a backup job, the NAS will hold off powering down until it completes. But if it's being accessed by a user computer, it won't.
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