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LrdShaper
Dec 09, 2016Aspirant
Manually create a ReadyNAS config backup
Hi guys, Been a long time since I visited and was surprised to find the new look. So I have 4 x 3TB disks in my ReadyNAS and one of the drives failed while I was at work. When I reached home the ...
mdgm-ntgr
Dec 09, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
That depends on what you want to restore.
You could look at what's included in an older one of your config backups.
LrdShaper
Dec 09, 2016Aspirant
I want to restore the full config. The problem is I don't have a backup of my NV+v2's config. I have one from my NV+ but I'm not sure if it would be the same. I can always configure it from scratch but I figured since I can still access the contents anyway then if I can back them up manually it would save me time.
I was thinking I could just tar /etc and then when setup the NV+v2 with bare configuration I can take a backup of config and then compare and update it.
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