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Arnav
May 23, 2017Aspirant
Readynas Backups and snapsots
I have been using my readynas for 3 months now. I am using snapshots to backup my data and have now finally had the time to set up automated backups to a USB to take offsite. I have come up with th...
jak0lantash
May 24, 2017Mentor
Arnav wrote:The auto backup only allows you to select one folder to backup. You can't pick a folder within the tree of folders not to backup.
Is "auto backup" something specific?
Because I'm able to select a subfolder with no difficulty from the "new backup job" wizard:

capaz
May 24, 2017Tutor
jak0lantash wrote:
Arnav wrote:The auto backup only allows you to select one folder to backup. You can't pick a folder within the tree of folders not to backup.
Is "auto backup" something specific?
Because I'm able to select a subfolder with no difficulty from the "new backup job" wizard:
I assumed that he meant, for example, that you can't multi-select, i.e., at a given level, select all folders *except* the one(s) you want to avoid. In your screenshot, suppose, instead of folder, there were folder1, folder2, and folder3. If you wanted to skip folder2, you couldn't multi-select folder1 and folder3.
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