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Using OneDrive for NAS backup now that it's broken on the ReadyNAS
So the OneDrive capability of the ReadyNAS has broken. If yours is still working, great, but others have found it has stopped working *there are a couple message threads here about it). Mine worked...
After leaving a test running for a while, I have found that the read-only option has run into issues even when I didn't delete anything from it, and that problem essentially stops OneDrive from doing any other updates. So I have to recommend that you not do that. It seemed to work fine at first, but later has issues that I've not been able to get around short of removing it.
Thanks for these posts. I've used the simple method with a symbolic link for each share in a folder.
Still going with the initial upload but seems to be working.
edit: perhaps spoke too soon. The upload starts but then stops for some reason, the syncing icon remains on but there is no upload activity unless I pause the sync, then restart it. Process then repeats - a few files are uploaded then activity stops after about a minute or so. I'm going to leave it alone for a few hours to see what happens.
Now seems to be working - I think it was just the very large number of files it had to process before beginning upload.
Hopefully this will be OK, seems like a reasonable workaround that doesn't involve any cost.
I've found it gets stuck a lot, so I added a Windows task that stops and re-starts OneDrive in the middle of the night. The task runs this script:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe" /shutdown timeout /T 300 start "Onedrive" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe" /backgroundI have gotten to my computer in the morning a couple times and found a pop-up that says it could not stop OneDrive, even though it has stopped, and I have to manually re-start it.
Right, my sync has completed and as far as I can tell all files are in my onedrive, however the onedrive folder on the pc shows all the symbolic linked folders as "Sync pending" as is the folder within which they reside.
The onedrive tray icon also never indicates that the sync is complete although no uploads are taking place - seems to be constantly stuck on "looking for changes"
I've restarted onedrive on pc, restarted pc, started and stopped sync all with no change.
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