Copy complete home share from one NAS to another?

If you want to copy from one NAS to a public share on another NAS, you can use rsync with the Frontview backup manager. If you want to copy from a home share on one NAS to a home share on another NAS, you could probably do it by NFS exporting the target home shares and using the backup manager over NFS, one home share at a time.

ewok wrote:
If you want to copy from a home share on one NAS to a home share on another NAS, you could probably do it by NFS exporting the target home shares and using the backup manager over NFS, one home share at a time.

Except there is no ability to enable root-privileged hosts for home shares and so this will fail due to permissions issues

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Bottom line is there is no way to do this without using SSH access at some point in the data transfer to overcome permissions and/or configuration limitations

Thanks sphardy - I came to this conclusion the hard way after attempting many different backup configurations using the admin user's credentials for the backup job.

I am moving all my data from my ProBE to my Pro6. I did the config backup & restore then copied over all the data in the shares. First by CIFS for speed then by rsync to correct all the permissions. Finally, it is time to do all the home shares. A single way to do this and retain permissions is a missing feature.

I've had to resort to moving the home shares 1 by 1 with each user entering their credentials. Fortunately, I don't have many, but it is still a pain.