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Dewdman42
Sep 14, 2017Virtuoso
iDrive workaround for backing up non-volume
I have decided to use iDrive to backup the important data on my readynas since crashplan is dropping home support. So far so good, but a few questions here related to some limitations of iDrive and ...
Dewdman42
Sep 15, 2017Virtuoso
Well I did find out ReadyNasVault does NOT backup system dirs either... it will only backup shared volumes..
How are people backing up their readynas system dirs such as /etc, /data/.apps and a few others?
There is a way to do it with iDrive scripting, but all ownership info is lost, iDrive doesn't save that in the backup. Sounds like I will need to tar something up nightly and then back up that tar file, but I would love some reccomendations from anyone else about this.
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