When I configured Amazon Cloud Drive syncing to one of my ReadyNAS Shares, "Photos", it said that it had to create a new share named "AmazonCloudDrive". The information was a bit ambiguous.
So is my Photos share going to be copied to the AmazonCloudDrive share which will then be synced to my Amazon Cloud Drive account?
If so... that's going to take up a LARGE chunk of space on my NAS because my Photos share is close to a terabye worth of RAW files.
Is this the intented design?
Also, when I'm on the ReadyNAS - Amazon Cloud Drive settings, it asks me how often I'd like to take Snapshots of the Photos share.
Is this normal? I had already set up the Photos share, within its own settings, to not create Snapshots... Why is the Cloud settings asking me again? Unless Snapshots is actually the term that Netgear is using for "Sync"?
Also, there doesn't seem to be a manual Sync button. I just set it up and I don't see a way to kick off the sync.
Model: RN10200|ReadyNAS 100 Series 2- Bay (Diskless)
The share sync will keep that folder in sync. The "AmazonCloudDrive" share will sync all of the data that you had in the Amazon Cloud Drive and ignore all of the shares that are retained on this NAS from being synced in a "syncing loop".
The Amazon Cloud Drive is a syncing type of backup. This would mean that the data that you have in the Amazon Cloud Drive servers is what you would have on your ReadyNAS. In an event that you would delete a file; the file would be deleted from the NAS and Amazon Cloud Drive server.
The syncing type of backup in mind; we have a snapshot capabilities on the ReadyNAS to make sure that you don't accidently delete your data. The option was exposed to you to make sure that in an event that you delete the file from your computer that gets synced to your Amazon Cloud Drive and NAS; the NAS will have a snapshot of that file to recover from if you choose to use the feature.
The syncing is automatic running on the box and is not on a schedule, so you would not need to "kick off" a sync since it should always be running.
I hope that gives you some insight on the behavior of Amazon Cloud Drive.
The NAS will backup to a folder ReadyNAS_<HostName> and this folder is ignored to sync down to the "AmazonCloudDrive" share. As for the shares that you choice to sync in your Amazon Cloud Drive will live inside the ReadyNAS_<HostName> with the share name. If you had a share named "Pictures"; it would looks something like "ReadyNAS_<HostName>/Pictures" in your Amazon Cloud Drive.
If you change the name of "Pictures" or ReadyNAS_<HostName>; there might be some sync issues and will resync back to this structure.
If you did not like your file/folder structure in the "Pictures" share, you would be able to change the content in the "ReadyNAS_<HostName>/Pictures" and that content will get synced between the ReadyNAS and Amazon Cloud Drive.
If you were talking about taking the content out of the ReadyNAS directories to restructure in a different method. There would be possible syncing differences, and I would be interested on how you would restructure the content.
It would be very nice when the syncprocess can ignore specified Folders on ACD that are not synced localy.
Eg. on my Amazon Cloud Drive is already a Folder called "Backup" where I put Manualy some FIles, so I don't want this Folder synced back to my ReadyNAS.
When I move this Folder manualy in my Clouddrive to the "ReadyNAS_<HostName>\Backup" Folder my NAS Stops syncing, so this is not a workaround, also when I move this Folder on ACD in the trash for testing (I can Recover it from the Trash) it will be synced down to my ReadyNAS.
I've turned Sync with Amazon Cloud Drive on, and selected Pictures and sync and have yet to see any photos appear in the Cloud Drive on amazons site (to confirm the process is working)... Curious what I'm missing here.
Sweet, I'm not going crazy :P. I called Amazon to see if they had any insight on their end and they had no clue passing me all the way to AWS support. Hopefully it'll be enabled in a future beta?
Odd, mine looks the exact same :/. Is there anything in the logs? I enable the sync, it has me log in with my Amazon Cloud Drive credentials, I see the spinning wheel on the ReadyNAS indicating it's setting everything up then nothing.
I would love to see this feature developer further.
First of all in my case I don't want to sync anything from ACD back to ReadyNAS, apart from keeping in sync selected shares. I'm using this feature with more than one NAS and don't want to see my content from the cloud multiplied all over the place. Especially I'm using as well StableBit CloudDrive so there is a lot of encrypted files. Yes, I know I can set ACD share to be synced 'Never' and turn off any services on this share as well. But that is rather workaround than a feature.
Next thing - encryption. Bascially T&C of ACD - as clarified here - are a bit blurry while clarifying what Amazon can do with your files. That is why I'm using SB CloudDrive for all my data stored in ACD. Can we see strong encryption build in this feature?
Schedule. It would be awesome if schedule will be extended the very same way as snapshot set up when smart management is set to off.
Next thing – sync (or rtather copy to the cloud) snapshots folders with deletion sync turned off. That will give us pretty much unlimited number of snapshots, not limited with NAS disk space….
Because I enabled it, checked sync, and nothing happens, nothing in logs. I'm curious if anyones is actually communicating and populating on the Amazon side?
To be honest with you - I set up dummy share with one file and just played a while with settings. Then I came to this thread and posted my message.
But now I actually checked this on ACD side and seems like folders are created as expected, but there is nothing in it. I set up sync to run every hour, so I leave it overnight and will check in the morning. Will let you know if this sync will be successful. So far the folder on AACD is empty and LOGS tab in Cloud >> ACD Settings is empty.
Not sure if that is important – but as I can’t turn off the ‘AmazonCloudDrive’ share sync (the one that supposed to sync from ACD to ReadyNAS) – I set this up to sync ‘NEVER’.
One more thing - if you have SSH enabled on your ReadyNAS - in /var/log/frontview you'll find amazoncd.log that got some contect but it looks like a lot of noise - somethng like 40K of plaintext after a few minutes of messing with settings.....
Overall - it is working. But I dont' want to download everything from ACD back to my ReadyNAS. I would like to set up ACD sync on all my devices and sync it only one way - from NAS to ACD. So far I have to use a 3rd party tool running on my Windows machine to acheive that....
Don't select Amazonclouddrive before press sync button, it won't download everything from ACD back to ReadyNAS,
==> Doesn't work for me - the checkbox beside AmazonCloudDrive can't be removed. For shares I can check or uncheck - but not for ACD. All I can do is to leave snapshot schedule to NEVER, but it is still downloading everything....
