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Luminary

Feb 19, 2017

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Documentation for Replicate, specifically backup and restoring data

Hello, I've been using Replicate for about 3 years now and luckily (knock on wood), I'v never had to restore my backup NAS to my primary NAS. That being said, I can't find any documentation on ho...

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nickjames
Feb 26, 2017
Thanks againg for your input, StephenB and TeknoJnky.

I got everything backed up this last week and so far as good.

StephenB, I know when I called into Netgear originally to setup Replicate, they suggested NOT to use snapshots on the destination (backupnas) device. Should I also not be creating snapshots on the destination device, when using Rsync?

By the way, I'm going with the "pull" method as I like the idea of putting the NAS on a power schedule. That being said, do I just figure how long the backup jobs should take, schedule them within the hours that the NAS is powered on, and that is it? Will it power off automatically if schedule backups are pending or in the middle of finishing one?

Here is a picture of my current schedule, which by the way, can you just have them all run at the same time and it will run each one, one-by-one until completion?

Thanks again for your suggestions!

nickjames

Luminary

Feb 21, 2017

http://kb.netgear.com/29929/ReadyNAS-OS-6-Setting-up-a-backup-job-with-rsync-over-SSH?cid=wmt_netgear_organic

Is this the best KB for this setup, Stephen?

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Feb 21, 2017

nickjames wrote:
http://kb.netgear.com/29929/ReadyNAS-OS-6-Setting-up-a-backup-job-with-rsync-over-SSH?cid=wmt_netgear_organic

Is this the best KB for this setup, Stephen?

Your article is rsync-over-ssh, which isn't needed since your backup NAS is local.

Try this one: http://kb.netgear.com/29741/How-do-I-back-up-data-between-two-ReadyNAS-OS-6-systems-using-the-backup-manager

I use "pull" jobs (running on the destination ReadyNAS). Here are screen shots of the settings I use.