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Re: Recycle bin on RN104

neonshades
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Recycle bin on RN104

 

Please give me an easy answer.... and please only answer if you know (no guesses).

 

is there a tick box to enable the recycle bin on the RN104?

 

My ReadNas NV+ V2 has a tick box to enable the recycle bin but I cannot find it in the RN104 menu. Help....

 

Thanks,

 

Robert....

Model: RN10400|ReadyNAS 100 Series 4- Bay (Diskless)
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BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: Recycle bin on RN104

Hi neonshades,

 

Welcome to the community!

 

The answer to your question can be found on this thread.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

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neonshades
Tutor

Re: Recycle bin on RN104

Hi BrianL,

Unable to follow your thread. Will not accept my login.

Nor will it send me a password update.

 

Robert....

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StephenB
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Re: Recycle bin on RN104

Must be a cut-and-paste error on Brian's part.

 

You could look here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Can-Recycle-Bin-be-enabled-for-CIFS-and-OS-6-1-...

 

and perhaps read through the posts after the highlighted thread as well.  The process will require some knowledge of linux.

 

 

Though I find Snapshots to be a good alternative.  With snapshots enabled, you can roll-back to older versions of the share, and if you right-click from windows on a file you can see/access previous versions.  If you right-click on the folder and access previous versions, you can select deleted files and restore them. It's not exactly the same as the recycle bin, but it is similar.

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BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: Recycle bin on RN104

Hi neonshades,

 

Sorry, I made a mistake with the link I used in my previous post (I already updated it). Anyway, StephenB already gave an introduction on how Snapshots work on the new OS 6 systems. Just let us know if you have further questions.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

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neonshades
Tutor

Re: Recycle bin on RN104


Hi BrianL,

Thanks for the help but snapshot is not what I needed. Guess the simple answer is no, the recycle bin tick box has been removed from the RN104 operating system.

Shame really.

Regards,

Robert....

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BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: Recycle bin on RN104

Hi neonshades,

 

I apologize if the said feature you are looking for is unavailable on the new OS 6 system. If you want this feature to be added again, I suggest that you post another thread on this board.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

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davexyz
Aspirant

Re: Recycle bin on RN104

From the original post of JMehring 20 November 2013

putty and ssh required

 

1) create file addons.conf as below

 

\etc\frontview\samba\addons\addons.conf

 

I think you have to create the addons directory as well.

 

2) then edit addons.conf, I use vi, to include the shares that you wish to have Recycle Bin activated for (include the square brackets)

 

[name of your share 1]
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:repository = Recycle Bin
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:versions = no

 

[name of your share 2]
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:repository = Recycle Bin
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:versions = no

 

3) Save file. As you can see you can choose the name of the "bin" . leave putty window  open

 

4) to "activate"  go to frontview interface on the nas and the share window

 

 toggle a property of the share for example ftp on to off.  this reloads the config file to include addons.conf

 

5)then in putty window type:

testparm

 

this should list your shares and show the recycle:parameters for the shares defined

 

6) close putty

 

I did this and I was a complete linux/ssh novice.

 

If you  install/update firrmware on the nas check that this file exists, factory reset obviously wipes this file

 

It works for usb attached drives etc just use the drive name ie USB_HDD_1 etc

 

for very large >5Tb usb drives there is  also a bit of a fidddle required on some NAS' due to the adding of the addons.conf file to the "main config file. If it does not load then post and I can give pointers on how to correct.

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