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ReadyNAS DR
So for the last three years, I have been taking advantage of the ReadyNAS Replicate service. After updating to v6.9.4 it caught my eye that this service is being discontinued on 12/31/2018. I understand the transition is to go from Repliate to ReadyDR, at which, I have set up based on the documentation which appears to be failry simple. However, this obviously has a lot of overhead with (a) having to manualy delete all of my Replicate data to free up space for ReadyDR back ups to run, which in essence, I have to remove prior to seeing if the job will be successful as ReadyDR only backs up "Shares" and not "File Level Folders" directly.
Has anyone successfully migrated over to this and is what I assumed above accurate?
Lastly, I have the SoftEther VPN and BaiKal Calender/Contact apps installed. How are these configuration(s)/databases backed up in this environment; as I don't even see BaiKal data listed anywhere visibly in the GUI, other than its installed and ON. How do you ensure these components are backed up as well?
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tupson wrote:
Lastly, I have the SoftEther VPN and BaiKal Calender/Contact apps installed. How are these configuration(s)/databases backed up in this environment; as I don't even see BaiKal data listed anywhere visibly in the GUI, other than its installed and ON. How do you ensure these components are backed up as well?
Apps are supposed to be installed in the .apps folder in the data volume - though some aren't. You can see that folder if you use File Explorer with NAS admin credentials. If you use ssh, you could create a share, and then move the appropriate folders to that share. Then replace the original folder with a soft link. That should let you back up the app data.
When you say "File Explorer" what do you mean? When I log into the ReadyNAS GUI, it only shows me the, DATA > PRIVATE > HOME > VPNSERVER Shares. The VPNSERVER Share only has the softether Windows installer inside, but nothing about the app / config within. And I see nothing of the BaiKal app at all.
Can you explain the SSH process for a non-GUI noob to this config.
- I opened a WinSCP session to the NAS and saw the /apps/ directory you made mention of. But I guess, since that repository is not available when I setup ReadyDR shares, by default NetGear isn't allowing config/databases and such of these apps to be in the backup rotation. Why?
tupson wrote:
by default NetGear isn't allowing config/databases and such of these apps to be in the backup rotation. Why?Netgear's backup jobs (ReadyDR and all other protocols) are intended to back up shares. They don't have any facility to backup/restore the OS itself or the apps.
I don't know why they've set it up that way.
I just swapped from ReadyDR to RSync as I was having various issues with ReadyDR as it was very dependant on snapshots.
But, what is the best method to backup the BaiKal database since you made mention they dont backup apps.
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