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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 rest...
After doing a factory reset on my Ultra 2 (it wouldn't expand after installing a larger HDD, active snapshots - x86, version 4.2.28????) I'm now trying to restore all the data. I've searched for hours, reading the 'How do I recover backed-up data' without realising that I had to do a reverse back-up (skipped the back up part and read bullet number 10: 'press go' considering pressing 'No' to the 'was this answer usefull') - why make it easy???
I now have to spend days recreating the data structure I had this Monday, both due to the 'Snapshot', that I've never activated, didn't know it was a feature in the x86 4.2.27 Radiator software - the only message I got was that I had to disable Snapshots to expand the drives in the NAS - but HOW???? (you should try it).
Then doing a factory reset having to, manually, do a restore to the c folder on the NAS.
That's SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH guys!!!!.
DrawsACircle wrote:
didn't know it (snapshot) was a feature in the x86 4.2.27
I'll leave it to others to respond to the main thrust of your post.
But I will say that snapshots were available in 4.2.x and 4.1.x and are described in the software manuals for both platforms. There were issues with some aspects - particularly snapshot resizing, which broke long ago. And truthfully, I've never run across the admin setting to fully disable them either. There is a snapshot schedule (see the tab on the volume settings), and of course you can enable/disable that.
OS 6 snapshots are very different (and in my opinion more useful).
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