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Confused about recovering my NV+ from backup
I have been doing a backup of C:\ on my RN virtually every week for many years now. I have never had to Recover i.e. start from a factory-clean RN and restore from my backup. This link suggests the process, which basically says "A backup that reverses the Source and Destination is what you need to Restore" afaict:
https://kb.netgear.com/21047/How-do-I-recover-backed-up-data-using-my-Duo-v2-or-NV-v2
Now I want to put-together such a new "Backup Job" to be used to Restore in the event of a failure, or at least try to document the steps. My current, actual pushbutton backup listing says Source is [c] and Destination is localhost::GOFLEX_EXT2 (plugged into front USB port).
So now I'm trying to create a Restore backup but I can't even get past Step 1. When I click "Add a new Backup Job" with my USB drive connected, and in the drop-down click "Share: GOFLEX_EXT2", it seems I need to add a Path because that field becomes un-greyed along with its Browse button. Clicking Browse though results in no reaction until my Brave browser pops-up with a "Page Unresponsive You can wait for it to become responsive or exit the page. ReadyNAS Frontview [ReadyNAS]" and I either Wait Forever or when I Exit I have to reload and start over from the RN's Home page.
Tried also to select not the mounted Share "GOFLEX_EXT2" but instead "USB Device (Front Port)" and this exposes the Path field again, but not the Browse button (greyed-out). The Apply button was active so I clicked it w/o entering any more than USB Device in Step 1 and leaving "Select this ReadyNAS or remote" in Step 2 and the resulting backup job looks like this:
Source
Destination
[USB Device (Front Port)]
<blank>
Which doesn't seem right to me, and clicking on Edit [this] Backup Job shows the Destination as "Remote: Windows/NAS (Timestamp)" and I have no idea what that means.
Can someone please give me some advice. I really just want to have some confidence that my backups are actually going to be useful when/if/WHEN my RN needs recovery.
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tomupnorth wrote:
This link suggests the process, which basically says "A backup that reverses the Source and Destination is what you need to Restore" afaict:
https://kb.netgear.com/21047/How-do-I-recover-backed-up-data-using-my-Duo-v2-or-NV-v2
That is the right process, though your article is for NV+ v2 NAS (that run 5.3.x firmware).
See the backup section here (which starts on page 80):
tomupnorth wrote:
Can someone please give me some advice. I really just want to have some confidence that my backups are actually going to be useful when/if/WHEN my RN needs recovery.
It is good that you are figuring this out now, and not waiting until you actually need recovery.
How is your backup drive formatted? I recommend using a format that you can access from your other devices - which for most people means NTFS.
Then you have a backup
- that you can verify/audit
- that you can restore to another device if you wish
- that can be restored from a PC to the NAS (as well as a backup job). For instance, using drag and drop or freefilesync.
Thank you StephenB for not telling me to RTFM! So I looked at the pages which say "duplicate your Dest settings to Source, and Source to Dest" and I can't do that because my Destination is "Remote: Rsync Server" with host of localhost and path of GOFLEX_EXT2. This Destination option is not available as a Source.
But it seems the gist of your last comment means simply that I should be able to copy all the files and etc from the USB drive to the NAS just by plugging it in and drag/drop or whatever. And not use the RN's Backup Job feature at all.
My drive is formatted EXT2 not NTFS, which Linux Reader can see on my Windows 7 computer, and that looks like attached i.e. it has all the files & folders of my RN on it.
So if I start-over from scratch with a pristine RN, I just plug-in the GOFLEX drive and copy the files across to root C? It would be that simple? EDIT: Oh, and my Backed-up config file, do I restore that after the files are copied to the RN? Am I correct to save as Config only Share Access, Services, Users and Groups, Network Settings, and Miscellaneous Settings but NOT "Everything" which includes "Data Volumes"?
tomupnorth wrote:
Thank you StephenB for not telling me to RTFM! So I looked at the pages which say "duplicate your Dest settings to Source, and Source to Dest" and I can't do that because my Destination is "Remote: Rsync Server" with host of localhost and path of GOFLEX_EXT2. This Destination option is not available as a Source.
You should be able to use remote:rsync server as the source as well.
Is GOFLEX_EXT2 a share you set up on the USB drive?
You could do a local->local restore instead, and select the share (or folder) on the USB drive.
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