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Aspirant

Feb 22, 2021

Backup ReadyNAS 4312V2 in Active Directory Environment

I have two RR4312Xs, both with firmware 6.10.1 using Active Directory for user management. I use one for production and the other for backing up the production's regular shares to. My question is...

Sandshark

Sensei

Feb 22, 2021

Are you wanting a "pull" (initiated by the backup NAS) or "push" (initiated by the primary NAS)? And what protocol?

Maybe something is different with AD, but the only restrictions I know of are that you cannot use rsync (because you have no way toi enable it for home folders) and the user login for a pull must be the admin account in order to see the home folder in which user folders are located.

Greg_Richardson

Aspirant

Feb 22, 2021

Thanks for the quick response.

I really don't mind which side initiates, however, normally I prefer "push" for what I'm doing. I would have preferred rsync but, like you indicated, it isn't available so I just chose "Windows/NAS (Timestamp".

I created a share to push all the home folders backup to since I don't seem to be able to choose "Home Folders" as a destination (could this have something to do with BTRFS?) which seems to work fine. It would just be nice to basically have a secondary machine that almost always ready to be immediately used should the primary die.

Anyway, this does get the data backed up and that's the main thing.

Thanks again, I really appreciate your help.

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 23, 2021
Greg_Richardson wrote:

I created a share to push all the home folders backup to since I don't seem to be able to choose "Home Folders" as a destination which seems to work fine. It would just be nice to basically have a secondary machine that almost always ready to be immediately used should the primary die.

You could add a second backup on the destination machine, that would copy the share to home. That can use rsync if you treat the source share as "remote" and use IP address 127.0.0.1. You could run that on schedule, or just keep it around in case you need it.

Greg_Richardson wrote:

I don't seem to be able to choose "Home Folders" as a destination (could this have something to do with BTRFS?)

No, it has nothing to do with BTRFS. Netgear has simply chosen not to make rsync available for Home. They certainly could have.
Sandshark
Sensei
Feb 23, 2021
Greg_Richardson wrote:

I created a share to push all the home folders backup to since I don't seem to be able to choose "Home Folders" as a destination (could this have something to do with BTRFS?) which seems to work fine.

Again, could be different under AD, but on my NAS when I browse for the destination with a protocol other than rsync chosen, there is a "Connect As" button. If I push the button and enter the destination NAS admin credentials, home shows in the list. I am still running 6.9.6, but I can't imagine they intentionally removed that feature.