Problems getting backup to work on SSD Unitiserve

Posted by: Red MacGregor on 22 March 2014

I've spent the day trying to setup a backup share on my spare NAS a WD MyBook Live. After much reading I found the issue was having a fixed IP address on the router but not on the NAS.

 

So I now have the backup share visible in the DTC and promoted to a backup location. However, when I initiate a manual backup it appears my source drive is incorrect. The DTC says the source drive is:\ E  but when I start the backup an error message says unable to start the backup - d:\music does not exist.

 

Can anyone assist please?

 

Thanks - Steve

 

Posted on: 22 March 2014 by garyi

OK seems you have a whole heap of confusion there.

 

 

Firstly and ideally your nas needs a fixed IP address. You can ASSIGN an IP address from the router and usually thats fine, but you could FIX an IP address from the nas. You usually access the nas via a web browser such as internet explorer or chrome.

 

Within that nas interface you can also set up an new SHARE. Set the sahre as something obvious like NAIMBACKUP or similar.

 

Ensure that this share is accessible as read and write by guests.

 

After a small amount of time it should appear to your serve. Goto system and backups and create new back up and pick that share you created, you might get a screen asking for a password just skip it because you granted read and write to guests and it should then be added.

 

 

Posted on: 22 March 2014 by Red MacGregor

Hi garyi - the issue is not the share any longer I managed to resolve the issues with that. The problem is now the source drive not the destination share/drive.

 

When I try a manual backup using the DTC I can see the destination share but not the correct source drive (ie the internal SSD) in the U/S.  This has a different drive letter :\E when it should be :\d which is the drive letter used in the locked store on the SSD U/S.

 

I can see the drive is :\d not :\E in the web based  program when I look at the music stores.

 

Sorry it's hard to explain.

Posted on: 22 March 2014 by sjbabbey

Red

 

Just had a look at the specs for the SSD Unitiserve and I don't think I that it stores any music files on its  own internal SSD drive. It looks like all music files which are ripped must be saved to an external network drive. Would this explain the issue you are having?

Posted on: 23 March 2014 by garyi

Sorry did not register the ssd bit, all the back up does as far as i know is music not the entire disk. 

Posted on: 23 March 2014 by sjbabbey
Originally Posted by garyi:

Sorry did not register the ssd bit, all the back up does as far as i know is music not the entire disk. 

Presumably the SSD US stores the music file's metadata and external file location.

Posted on: 23 March 2014 by garyi

I think thats all in the store.

Posted on: 23 March 2014 by Red MacGregor

Yes I think you may be correct it only stores metadata or data where to source the backup information - either way you are requesting the U/S to start a backup. The U/S has the destination information that is my spare NAS and I assume the U/S uses it's own internal hard drive as the source of the information even when it actually gets that information from the music store.

 

If I cannot resolve this it may be easier just to get my Synology NAS to back up to my spare NAS and not get the U/S involved.