Backing up individual shares is not working well. Frontview puts the contents of each share in the root directory of the destination, which means that any files with the same names get clobbered and any directories end up with mixed contents. Unfortunately, this is not an adequate solution for backups.
No. You would either need to set separate backups for each folder, or use rsync and exclude folders you don't want to backup. The other strategy would be to use other backup software on your PC to backup to a USB drive attached to the PC or. Readynas. A bit cumbersome as you need your PC on and it's slow.
To be clear (since I was confused about this earlier in the thread), you can create a backup job for an entire share or a specific directory in a share, but need multiple backup jobs for multiple directories. This is cumbersome, but different from only being able to back-up entire shares.
You can also specify which directory on the backup volume to put the directory that you backup.
Yes, you can specify whatever path you wish. For the source you should be able to click browse to set the path. The destination path needs to be entered manually. If you click on help in the backup section of Frontview it has some sample paths for different protocols which will help you to enter these correctly.
Why not just backup the whole share? Do you not have enough space?
In my case, I don't want to save all of my shares. I use my ReadNAS for non-critical backup of some of my systems and do not need to backup those shares to an external drive.
