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Software Sucks
Does anyone have the slightest idea why Netgear would manufacture a perfectly NAS drive with perhaps the worst NAS software in history? Even simple tasks become torture with this product. I will...
JBDragon1 wrote:
It would be nice if I could CLONE my 516 to the QNAP and than any changes since that full CLONE. So that I could do an easy restore back to the 516 of everything and have it all working as it should.
Is rsync set up to back up the full data volume to the QNAP in one backup job? If it is, is /.apps being backed up?
I don't know how to back up the WHOLE data volume. That would be what I want. That way I could do a full complete restore of everything. But I couldn't figure out how. When I setup a backup, and click on Location, I can't seem to get much of anything other than all my Media files and their directory's. and a few other things, I have no idea how to get it to backup /.apps or any of the other places I had to manually install apps at and their config files.
If I can have a single Backup Job that I point to that back-up's EVERYTHING on the NAS to the Backup NAS in a single go. Than afterward just backs up anything that has changed since the last backup, Great. Then have the capability to restore that backup back onto the ReadyNAS, or pick and choose what I want to copy back over. That's how I've always wanted things.
JBDragon1 wrote:
I don't know how to back up the WHOLE data volume. That would be what I want.
Run the backup job on the source NAS, and select "data" as the source location (or whatever your volume name is). You would need to confirm that hidden folders like /.apps are also backed up.
How do you show hidden folders like /.apps?
If you are using File Explorer, you can set the Windows File Explorer Options to show hidden files and folders.
You can also navigate into hidden folders even if they aren't displayed (nor instance entering \\nasname\data\.apps into the file explorer address bar). You need to use NAS admin credentials for \\nasname\data though.
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