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aks-2
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Aug 23, 2020
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RN214 full backup and restore

I have had multiple previous generations of ReadyNAS using OS4 and OS5, for full system backup i simply backed up "/c" to an external USB drive. This copied all shares and user home areas, restore wa...
  • StephenB's avatar
    Aug 24, 2020

    Are you planning to back up everything to a single USB drive?  Or do you need multiple USB drives for the correct capacity?

     

    Personally I've done share-by-share backup to other NAS myself (though restore is a bit simpler for me because I don't use home folders).  But you can specify /data (or whatever your volume name is) as the local source or destination of a backup job.  So you can restore everything after you re-create the shares and home folders.

     

    The challenge with bare-metal restore is re-creating the NAS home folders before you restore.  Accessing the NAS with each user's credentials is a pain (and of course you might not know their password).  But you can log in with ssh, and then use rnutil mkhomedir_helper username to create it.

     

    I believe the general procedure for you to do a bare-metal restore would be to

    1. do a factory install on the NAS
    2. reinstall the apps (needed before restoring the configuration)
    3. restore the NAS configuration
    4. recreate home folders with rnutil
    5. restore the data from the backup disk(s)

     

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