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iDrive workaround for backing up non-volume
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iDrive workaround for backing up non-volume
I have decided to use iDrive to backup the important data on my readynas since crashplan is dropping home support. So far so good, but a few questions here related to some limitations of iDrive and best way to work around it.
- iDrive will only backup stuff that is contained in a shared volume. It will not, for example, backup /etc/ or /data/.apps, etc... Does anyone know of a work around to get stuff like that backed up or perhaps another solution I can use to backup the readynas system, and then just basically use iDrive to backup my main shared data volumes?
- Would readynas Vault be an acceptable solution to backup only my system info? does it even do that? I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know if it can backup non-shared dirs that are not under shared volumes, or whether it can be configured to selectively only backup a subset of data on the readynas. iDrive is much more cost effective for all the big data, but as I said, it can't access anything that isn't on a shared volume.
I have been running it and it works, perhaps better then Crashplan actually, plus the 5TB plan is quite affordable and I can backup some other computers on the same plan.
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Re: iDrive workaround for backing up non-shared volume (ie, /etc )
Well I did find out ReadyNasVault does NOT backup system dirs either... it will only backup shared volumes..
How are people backing up their readynas system dirs such as /etc, /data/.apps and a few others?
There is a way to do it with iDrive scripting, but all ownership info is lost, iDrive doesn't save that in the backup. Sounds like I will need to tar something up nightly and then back up that tar file, but I would love some reccomendations from anyone else about this.