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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...
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.
You would need to correct the ownership of the TM data back to what it should be.
If we allowed configuring a backup job to restore to the root of the data volume some users may mistakenly wipe all their data on the NAS. We don't want that to happen, so we don't allow that.
mdgm wrote:
If we allowed configuring a backup job to restore to the root of the data volume some users may mistakenly wipe all their data on the NAS. We don't want that to happen, so we don't allow that.
Then there should be a guide on how to fully restore the NAS from the backup.
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!!!!.
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