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LucianTS
Sep 22, 2016Aspirant
I want to factory reset my ReadyNAS, will I lose my installed applications?
I want to factory reset my ReadyNAS, will I lose my installed applications such as Transmission, MySQL, PHP etc?
3 Replies
- omicron_persei8Luminary
"Factory Default" is to wipe everything on NAS, so yes, all data, all settings, all applications are wiped.
- LucianTSAspirant
Is there a way to backup the applications and their settings (data)?
LucianTS wrote:
Is there a way to backup the applications and their settings (data)?
Unfortunately no (at least not though the web ui).
Also, if you save/restore your configuration files, you will need to reinstall your apps beforeyou re-apply the saved configuration.
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