Moving a set of backup_jobs.conf configs from one ReadyNAS server to another (RN426 & RNDP400U)

The solution to my problem of transferring the backup job configurations from my Ultra 4 Plus to my RN426, both running OS6.10.8, turned out to have a number of elements. This is a summary so that the next person who needs to do this has a condensed narrative of my journey.

History: I have had Readynas boxes for over 15 yeas. I upgraded from my Infrant NV+ to an Ultra 4,upgraded that to OS6 using unofficial firmware, and then upgraded to my Ultra 4 Plus. I did this with the simple process of backing up the old config and restoring it to the new machine. When I wanted to upgrade to my RN426, this process failed to work, giving an "Unrecognized Server Error" when I attempted to do it.

Not wanting to spend too much time troubleshooting the mystery, I then manually configured the new machine to match the Shares and Networking configurations by hand. When it came to the backup configurations I hesitated to try and rebuild them by hand since there are all kinds of niggly little details in them that I honed over the years and I just wanted to port them over.

So, I unzipped the saved configuation from my Ultra 4 Plus and copied the /frontview/etc/backup_jobs.conf file to the same location on the new machine. No joy. StephenB  mentioned that there is a database where these things are kept in Frontview, so thinking that some post-processing needed to be done after copying the config file I tried this:

• Logged out of Frontview
• Logged into the box using SSH as root
• Copied the config file to the /frontview/etc/backup_jobs.conf file
• Rebooted

This worked. I thought. The configurations looked fine, all scheduled with the same schedules.

But, the next morning I discovered that none of them had run.

The final step in the solution was to do the following for each Backup Configuration:

1. Open its settings
2. Clear the Schedule checkbox
3. Save the settings
4. Open the settings
5. Check the Schedule checkbox

That did the trick and everything is working now.

Thanks to StephenB  for his help!