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Restore config after reset does not re-create home shares
Hi
I've got myself some new 2TB WD Red drives for my NV (RAIDiator 4.1.12), so I decided to do a full backup of the config and volume c, and factory reset to get 16k sectors (my original install was on v3 firmware) and more importantly get the 4k block size to support my new drives in sync.
Done the backup as a backup job with source Volume: c and destination Remote: NFS Server (took forever), backup-up the full config - all good.
Replaced all four drives and factory reset, X-RAID, no snapshot. Restored config backup, rebooted and allowed the re-sync to complete.
So now, I want to restore the Home Shares for all users. The users are all present in the User List, but the home shares don't exist, so there's not for example 'Home Share: SomeUser' as a destination for a backup job. I have found that if I log in via windows cifs for example as my own user, my user share then must get created, and it does then show up as a destination for a backup job.
So what do I do about restoring the data for all the users who's passwords I don't know?! I can't log in with their credentials via cifs to get the shares created, as I don't know what their passwords are. Is this not a bug, that the home shares are not getting re-created as part of the restore config process?!
Help.
I've got myself some new 2TB WD Red drives for my NV (RAIDiator 4.1.12), so I decided to do a full backup of the config and volume c, and factory reset to get 16k sectors (my original install was on v3 firmware) and more importantly get the 4k block size to support my new drives in sync.
Done the backup as a backup job with source Volume: c and destination Remote: NFS Server (took forever), backup-up the full config - all good.
Replaced all four drives and factory reset, X-RAID, no snapshot. Restored config backup, rebooted and allowed the re-sync to complete.
So now, I want to restore the Home Shares for all users. The users are all present in the User List, but the home shares don't exist, so there's not for example 'Home Share: SomeUser' as a destination for a backup job. I have found that if I log in via windows cifs for example as my own user, my user share then must get created, and it does then show up as a destination for a backup job.
So what do I do about restoring the data for all the users who's passwords I don't know?! I can't log in with their credentials via cifs to get the shares created, as I don't know what their passwords are. Is this not a bug, that the home shares are not getting re-created as part of the restore config process?!
Help.
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- Restore the home shares to a temporary share e.g. homesbkup. Then login to CIFS as admin and move the contents of homesbkup to /c/home
Then if the permissions are not correct install the add-on that fixes Home Share Permissions. - Well, I never realised I could connect to smb://admin@MyNASHost/c until you suggested that! I could have not deleted the files in .bittorrent from my backup as I did a couple of hours ago thinking there was no way to restore them.
I've just created a folder for each user missing a home share in c/home and sure enough the shares now show as a source/destination in 'Add a New Backup Job', meaning I can create a job for each share to restore from the NFS backup and retain the correct permissions (hopefully).
Your suggestion would probably be quicker, particularly for large number of user home shares, but is the permissions the only thing that gets lost doing a cifs drag'n'drop compared to the restore via NFS backup job? Where can I get this add-on that fixes permissions btw? I can't see it here: http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=617 or here: http://www.readynas.com/?cat=36
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