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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 p...
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.
There are no Remote options available to me as Source.
GOFLEX_EXT2 is the name of the Seagate USB drive. As you can see, it appears as a Share above fwiw. So I guess if I was going to use a Backup Job, this is what I would choose huh. But then if I click Browse I get an empty dialog, and sometimes Frontview page just hangs. No good.
Further, I see no way in Dest to select the NAS' root.
It should not be this hard!!!!!!!!!!! đ
Personally I use NAS-NAS backup, so my process is different from yours. I wouldn't be restoring the entire NAS at once, instead I restore one share at a time (each with it's own backup job).
If you play with this, I suggest creating a small test share on the NAS, and backing it up to a thumb drive, instead of working with the actual backup drives.
You should be able to select the Seagate folder, and then enter the path manually into the right hand pane to get the folder you want to restore. Then select a local share for the destination.
If for some reason you want to use rsync for recovery you should be able to choose remote rsync server from the "select this ReadyNAS or remote" pulldown.
The other approach is to connect the backup drive to a PC, and copy the data over the network back to the appropriare NAS shares. If the PC is a Mac or Windows, you'd need suitable tools to be able to read the format of the USB drive.
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