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I've had a F2-210 for about a year, and for every thing that it manages to do right, it still finds new and imaginative ways to disappoint me.

Firstly, I'd set up backups of my media (movies, photos and music) to a OneDrive. This worked occasionally, then stopped. It no longer syncs, nor can I set up any other sync operations as the OneDrive application won't show me the folders on my cloud drive. A reboot probably wakes it back up, but that defeats the point of having a NAS available 24/7.

So, cloud backups are flaky (and are known to be - I see people on the forum have been reporting issues for years and the latest response seems to be "It's an rsync issue"). And don't get me started on the moments when the File Manager decides to rename folders because it doesn't like apostrophes, meaning that when cloud syncing is actually working, it finds GB's of "new" directories to back up.

Not to worry. That data doesn't change much. Instead, this weekend I wanted to look up how to backup the individual user home directories. I have a spare USB HDD so wanted to set up backups to that. Yet again, the good old F2-210 finds a way to thwart that. USB Backup only backs up from the public folders, not individual home directories.

So is there any way I can reliably back up all the data on my NAS, without having to jump through hoops? It really shouldn't be this difficult.

Maybe it's the gradual increase in RAM capacity that's causing the backup to fail. This may help you：
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TMzethar wrote: ↑17 Jun 2024, 19:08 Maybe it's the gradual increase in RAM capacity that's causing the backup to fail. This may help you：
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I've had that fix in place since it was first announced. RAM usage usually sits between 20 and 50%, so I don't think that's the cause.

AndyB wrote: ↑17 Jun 2024, 23:21

If you are wanting to back up files on NAS (reliably), the best I have found is using a desktop PC with some proven 3rd party backup software. As far as 'home' folders are concerned it may be that you have to set up different backups per user to ensure permissions are correct.

Sad, isn't it?

(But I don't use 'home' folders, as such. Give each user a shared folder if needed.)

At a deeper level, is it sysadmin's responsibility to back up individual user data?

Gremlin wrote: ↑19 Jun 2024, 07:06

AndyB wrote: ↑17 Jun 2024, 23:21

If you are wanting to back up files on NAS (reliably), the best I have found is using a desktop PC with some proven 3rd party backup software. As far as 'home' folders are concerned it may be that you have to set up different backups per user to ensure permissions are correct.

Sad, isn't it?

(But I don't use 'home' folders, as such. Give each user a shared folder if needed.)

At a deeper level, is it sysadmin's responsibility to back up individual user data?

I moved the Home directories from their default location over to individual folders in the Public folder (with appropriate permissions set).

This seems to have been a suitable workaround, and at least USB backups are now working.

As for the responsibility of backing up data, I guess it's nobody's responsibility at an individual level, until one of my family accidentally delete or overwrite something, at which point all eyes are on me