How so you undertake a restore?

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How so you undertake a restore?

Postby DamoM » Sun May 15, 2011 7:33 am

Having done a backup to a USB drive to enable me to do a system restore so that the NV+ recognises the larger drives I've put in I am about to do a restore but it just doesn't look that obvious on how exactly to do it!

I've looked through the forum for a step by step but can't find anything. There is no 'restore' option.

Does anyone know how you do it or is it simply a case of setting up a fresh 'backup' job to restore the data for each seperate folder that was backed up?

Apologies if this is an over simplified request but it's extremely important that I get it 100% right!
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Re: How so you undertake a restore?

Postby ewok » Mon May 16, 2011 4:47 pm

Yes, you can create reverse backup jobs.
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Re: How so you undertake a restore?

Postby DamoM » Tue May 17, 2011 1:12 am

ewok wrote:Yes, you can create reverse backup jobs.


The thing is I can't see an option to restore the whole USB drive to c:?

Do i have to set up seperate jobs for each folder? If so then I can't see any listing in the drop down on destination that looks like it refers to the NAS?
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Re: How so you undertake a restore?

Postby sdouek » Tue May 17, 2011 10:37 am

Yes separate jobs.

Make sure you only restore the shares that you can see via frontview>shares and not every folder on the usb drive.

i.e. not the ".timemachine" or any ".folder" for that matter.
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