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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...
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.
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.
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).
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.
Sandshark wrote:
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
So, if the system is supposed to move the apps, there is a bug that Netgear has totally overlooked in their testing.
Well, it'd be great if it did move the apps directory (rather than requiring ssh to do that).
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