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Windows backup without "Everyone Full Control" permission
I recently purchased the Readynas duo v2 to protect the data that lives on both my Windows computer and a Linux server that I work on remotely with DNS. This post is about the Windows backup. I would like to set up a backup task that backs up my user folder. I do not want the user folder to be viewable by everyone and able to be changed by everyone. Instead, I would like the readynas to use the user credentials that I am able to use from other computers on my network to see the user folder and access it's files. This should be a trivial task for a backup system that is suppose to support the SMB protocol. However, with my calls to support, I am told that the readynas simply can not back up things automatically if it doesn't have everyone access to the folder and read/write permission. I don't believe that this is true. Has anyone been able to do this successfully? If so, how?
Greg
Greg
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- I think this is supposed to work if the NAS user credentials (username and password) are identical to the remote server. However I have seen other posts here saying that it doesn't.
One thing that certainly works is to push the data from the PC to the NAS. However, that would require some backup script or program on the PC. - I am willing to change the credentials to the NAS if this would work. However, this still leaves me confused as to why the backup option would have a user name and password for the remote device that is being backed up. What is it doing with those credentials? If you push the test button it verifies correctly on the username and password. Then if you get them wrong, it does not. So that is a good sign. However, it just doesn't back up!
Also, to your push idea. This would work using Windows Backup but only if you have Windows Ultimate, which I do not. This shouldn't be required though. It should be able to do the pull on it's own.
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