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Sandshark
Oct 17, 2019Sensei - Experienced User
How to save your apps when destroying your main volume (OS6)
Normally, destroying your primary volume will remove all your apps. Well, I don't think it actually totally removes all traces of them, it does delete their folders in /apps, and it must do something...
StephenB
Oct 17, 2019Guru - Experienced User
If you have two volumes, I think that the NAS already will migrate /apps to the remaining volume if you delete the first (primary) one. Though it's been a while since I tried that.
- SandsharkOct 18, 2019Sensei - Experienced User
I only tried this on a virtual machine, but it did not migrate the apps when I destroyed the main volume in OS 6.10.1.
I'll have to give it a shot on a real NAS when I have a chance, but I don't know why it would behave any differently.
- StephenBOct 19, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Sandshark wrote:
but I don't know why it would behave any differently.
Me either, but I did find that the NAS did migrate my apps automatically (quite a while ago).
- SandsharkOct 22, 2019Sensei - Experienced User
I just tried it on a real NAS (Ultra4 running OS 6.9.5) and apps were not moved to the remaining volume. The only thing is the Apps directory is DO_NOT_DELETE.
So, if the system is supposed to move the apps, there is a bug that Netgear has totally overlooked in their testing.
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