Hi team,
I have a QNAP NAS on my network and this is used to synch my Windows systems.
Currently the download folder, Documents folder and Pictures are being synched.
Apart from that I have multimedia files on the QNAP.
So I thought it is time to make sure that I have backups of the data and for that I want to use the Zimaboard2, which has 2 8TB drives connected (configured as RAID1).
So yesterday I defined a backup of the multimedia folders on the QNAP using the ZimaOS dashboard backup app.
These multimedia folders on the QNAP are accessible for all (QNAP NAS cannot be connected to from outside my network).
In the backup definition I defined the access as using Guest.
Today I wanted to add the backups of the synched Downloads, Documents and Picture folders.
First thing I saw when I opened the Backup app was, that there was no backup-definition of what I created yesterday (and I’m sure it was there, because the backup was created as expected).
Second problem I am facing is that these synched folders (downloads etc) are not accessible with a guest account, however when I try to set up the backup and provide the address of the QNAP, switch off the Use Guest account it says that the QNAP is already connected.
I’m therefore unable to connect to these folders user the proper account.
I have 4 questions:
- What happened to the backup definitions I created yesterday?
- If I recreate this definition, will it start all over or will it check what is already in the destination folder?
- Is it possible to access a LAN storage location using more than 1 account?
- If Q3 answer is NO - how do I delete the existing LAN storage definition as there is no Delete button (and then the answer to Q2 gets really important).
You might wonder why I choose to create the backups from the QNAP synched folders and not from the Windows systems directly? Well that is because the QNAP and the Zimaboard2 are always on. The windows systems aren’t , so using the QNAP as source will make sure that the backups are being created
Oh, and I hope that it will be possible to setup schedules for the backups in the near future, but I read that is something that is being worked on.
Using the CLI, I found that in the media folder there is a green highlighted sub-folder pointing to the ip-address of the QNAP and one to the Downloads folder for which I tried to setup a backup.
Q5: can I delete these pointers or will that then delete the data on the QNAP?
