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Manually create a ReadyNAS config backup
Hi guys,
Been a long time since I visited and was surprised to find the new look. So I have 4 x 3TB disks in my ReadyNAS and one of the drives failed while I was at work. When I reached home the NAS have already shutdown and now it won't boot up anymore it's just stuck at "Booting..." no matter how many hours I leave it at that. But anyway that is not my immediate concern as I have offsite backups to my ReadyNAS NV+ v1 in the Philippines and to Google Drive. What I don't have a backup of is the ReadyNAS config.
I have removed the drives, mounted the 3 working drives onto my Pine64 running Debian and currently copying my files out to other spare drives I have. I want to know which files I need to zip in order to create a ReadyNAS config backup that I can restore via the ReadyNAS interface in the event that I have to re-format the drives and re-create the array.. Thanks in advance.
HW: ReadyNAS NV+ v2
HDD: 4 WDRed WD30EFRX 3TB drives
OS: RAIDiator 5.3.11 (ARM)
2 Replies
That depends on what you want to restore.
You could look at what's included in an older one of your config backups.I want to restore the full config. The problem is I don't have a backup of my NV+v2's config. I have one from my NV+ but I'm not sure if it would be the same. I can always configure it from scratch but I figured since I can still access the contents anyway then if I can back them up manually it would save me time.
I was thinking I could just tar /etc and then when setup the NV+v2 with bare configuration I can take a backup of config and then compare and update it.
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