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How do I restore from external USB drive? [SOLVED]
I have regular Frontview backup jobs backing up all my user folders and shares to an external USB drive. Now I've had to factory default my NAS to get the upgrade to 4.1.8 to work, and I need to restore that backed-up data. But I see no obvious way to do that. There are no "restore" options that I can find, and I haven't found an answer in the FAQ, the manual, or by searching here.
The only thing I can think of is this: do I create a new backup job for each share that backs up _from_ the external drive _to_ the NAS? It seems odd, but it seems like a kind of Unix-y way to do it.
The only thing I can think of is this: do I create a new backup job for each share that backs up _from_ the external drive _to_ the NAS? It seems odd, but it seems like a kind of Unix-y way to do it.
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- Correct - just "reverse" your existing backup jobs.
- Thanks!
- Trying to restore -- did a backup from Volume: c to USB device (completed successfully); now trying to do a restore, but "Volume: c" does not appear as an option for the "backup destination" (reversing the previous backup, as indicated in the above posts).
How do I restore the entire "c" volume?I note this is marked as "solved", but I am running into this problem as well, and I don't see any solution in the thread. Was there a solution to all the things that are missing from the "destination" list?
I'm currently trying to restore two folders which are *not* shares (one is the timemachine folder, one is the transmission folder)... and as far as I can see, neither "timemachine" nor "volume: c" appear in the destination list... therefore one cannot restore directly to either of those things.
At this point, I'm planning to:
- create temporary shares (because you can restore to a share folder)
- restore to each of those shares
- SSH into the ReadyNAS and manually mv the share directories on top of the actual directories for each of those things
Is that really the best way to do this? It may seem rather "unix-y" to create backup jobs to restore, but making it asymmetrical is very un-unix-y. I can't help but think the folks at Netgear never actually needed to restore their ReadyNAS from a backup!
I agree the backup job choices should be symmetrical.
If you are planning to use ssh anyway, you can of course simply copy the USB drive folder to the destination folder (even if it is not a share).
If you formatted the drive as NTFS, you can also connect it to a windows PC, access the data volume using admin credentials, and drag/drop the folders as you wish. Though in this scenario, owner/group will end up admin/admin.
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