RNDP 6000 seems to be short circuiting my UPS

Understood, thank you. Now I don't feel bad that I never used anything like that on my 6000.

My friend, I hate to jinx myself but I think we might be done. I'm going to give it a few days, but it looks like I'm set!

I cannot thank you enough for helping me through this mess. Shall I click 'solved' anyplace when I come back?

You guys win the 'best forum I've ever been to' award for sure. 

best,

Ken

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KenTanker0us1 wrote:

Shall I click 'solved' anyplace when I come back?

 

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That's always good, but might be hard given the length of this thread.  Maybe make a short post that lists the issues that were solved, and then make that the "solution".

Well Stephen, I was right to not close out the thread. Nothing wrong with the new NAS, or even the old one as far as I can tell.

But the copy job seems to have doubled the size of the share I was backing up. I assume this has something to do with the backup settings? My impression was that the intial backup would be full and then incremental from there. But the backup job seems to have doubled the size of the share: it went from 1.4 TB to 2.8 TB overnight. It's pretty weird because I can put the 2 shares next to each other in explorer windows and they seem identical; and if I select a random folder inside the share it's the same size and the corresponding share in the new NAS I was copying from. Weird.

So do I need to delete everything in the old share and do a complete backup of it from scratch? Obviously something went wrong. Here ai am thanking you for your help again.

Do you have snapshots enabled on the share?

On the (old) target share I wouldn't know how, so I doubt it has snapshots enabled.

On the new one, I don't think so. In share settings/snapshots, Snapshot Management is set to Smart, but it's greyed out. Shapshot Schedule is set to Never.

I meant the new one, but it looks like they are disabled.   Also I am assuming the size increase is on the new NAS - let me know if that is incorrect. 

Did you look at the backup log?

Also, if the backup is running on the new NAS, can you post screen shots of at least the advanced and options tabs for the backup job?  If it is running on the old NAS, post screen shots of at least Step 1 and Step 4.

I took your recommendation and I'm running the backup job on the new NAS; so the source is local and the destination is the 6000.

The size increase is on the old NAS - the target.

I did look at the backup log, but it didn't really clear anything up for me.

Screenshots from the new:

So I'm mostly happy, I just need to understand these backup jobs more clearly. What did I do wrong?

As always, thanks very much.

I suggest setting "Remove deleted files on target".  When that is set, if you delete a file on the new NAS, it will be deleted on the old when the backup runs.

Look to see if there is a subfolder in the Pro share that matches the sharename.

You were right: there is a folder called jobs in the jobs share. So it would be a duplicate of the share living inside of the share. Can I delete it?

I changed the settings for the backup job (on the new NAS) so now "Remove deleted files on target" is enabled.

Awaiting instructions, with thanks.

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KenTanker0us1 wrote:

You were right: there is a folder called jobs in the jobs share. So it would be a duplicate of the share living inside of the share. Can I delete it?

 

Yes. 

That is where the backup actually went.  You can fix that by going to source setting in the backup job and enter a / in the path field. 

That is described in step 16 here, but is very easy to miss: https://kb.netgear.com/29741/How-do-I-back-up-data-between-two-ReadyNAS-OS-6-systems-using-the-backup-manager.  An OS-6 quirk, though it can be convenient if you are backing up multiple shares to the same target share. 

Sorry, that link won't open for me.

So let me see if I understand you:

1. In the new NAS, where I'm running the backup job, I set the backup job settings/Source to be share:/jobs ??

    Right now the backup job source is set to share:jobs. Here's a screen shot:

I went ahead and deleted that extra jobs folder, so the old NAS is happy.

Awaiting instructions with thanks.

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KenTanker0us1 wrote:

Sorry, that link won't open for me.

 

So let me see if I understand you:

1. In the new NAS, where I'm running the backup job, I set the backup job settings/Source to be share:/jobs ??

 

 The link should be fixed now.  The forum software sometimes grabs an extra character or two when it creates the hyperlink.

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KenTanker0us1 wrote:

In the new NAS, where I'm running the backup job, I set the backup job settings/Source to be share:/jobs ??

   

No. I said to set to PATH field to /.  Put the share name back to share:jobs.

My bad. I was looking at the name instead of the path. Duh!

I never changed the name, so no need to change anything back.

The link works now. Very useful.

I put the / in the path field.  I fully expect the backup job to be good now.

Again, many thanks.

StephenB, I'm checking back to let you know that both my NASs (plural) are both working wonderfully. The help of this forum was incalculable.

I'm looking at setting static IPs on my network, especially for the NASs because I'm using Windows Credentials as you recommended. I'm reading about all the various elements in the process and I'm trying to be *really* careful with it because I'm just plain scared of screwing up and losing my data. I've tried setting one NAS to static IP outside the range of my router but I can't add the static IP in the router because the DHCP still has it listed, with mac address, in the DHCP table. So I'm not sure what the sequence of operations should be, and once again I'm a total noob.

Should I start a new discussion, or is it ok to ask questions here? As always, many thanks.

Ken

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Should I start a new discussion, or is it ok to ask questions here? 

 

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I think it's best to start a new discussion thread.