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Using OneDrive for NAS backup now that it's broken on the ReadyNAS
So the OneDrive capability of the ReadyNAS has broken. If yours is still working, great, but others have found it has stopped working *there are a couple message threads here about it). Mine worked...
I've found it gets stuck a lot, so I added a Windows task that stops and re-starts OneDrive in the middle of the night. The task runs this script:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe" /shutdown
timeout /T 300
start "Onedrive" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe" /backgroundI have gotten to my computer in the morning a couple times and found a pop-up that says it could not stop OneDrive, even though it has stopped, and I have to manually re-start it.
Right, my sync has completed and as far as I can tell all files are in my onedrive, however the onedrive folder on the pc shows all the symbolic linked folders as "Sync pending" as is the folder within which they reside.
The onedrive tray icon also never indicates that the sync is complete although no uploads are taking place - seems to be constantly stuck on "looking for changes"
I've restarted onedrive on pc, restarted pc, started and stopped sync all with no change.
Mine constantly says it's got 2 files remaining but also says it's uploading at 0kbps and shows no files currently uploading. I know what files change all the time (my Outlook backups), and they are up to date.
- Yes that seems to happen with mine as well. Do your symbolic link folders indicate that they are synced ?
Everything on my NAS shows as "sync pending", but I can see that it's uploaded every new and changed file.
Discovered a big problem/risk with this method.
I was trying to solve the sync pending issue so I turned on local access then turned it off again. Onedrive started to download files to my local onedrive folder, but then when I turned local access off again onedrive started removing local files, including files in the symbolic link folders - that is it started removing files from my nas.
Fortunately:
1. I have backups
2. I discovered it quite quickly
It is still going to be a PITA to put it right.
I'm going to have to give this method a bit of thought - too risky for me if onedrive can delete files from the nas that easily does your method with creating users with read only access prevent this problem? I would assume not.
Yes, the whole point of using the read-only access is so nothing gets deleted from the NAS. But if you (or OneCloud as in the case you had) tries to delete anything, it messes up the sync even worse. Consequently, all of my other uses of the NAS are via another account on what Windows (and, thus, OwnCloud) thinks is a completely different device.
I think the continuous attempt to sync may be that OneCloud is trying to update it's own pointer files in read-only folders. That's why it doesn't show what files it's trying to sync.
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