Hello everyone,
I backed up my defective drive 1 from a 2 drive RAID 0 system to an external USB drive on my QNAP 251.
I bought a new drive, inserted it and recreate a new RAID 1 system.
The only important thing on my backup was all my Plex movies.
I would like to copy ONLY the movies located in a folder called plex.
But for some reason when I do a restore, I can only restore all of the drive, it doesn't see individual folders within the backup.
If I do a one way sync, it doesn't allow me to see the plex folder. It only sees the backup file system.
Before I took out the defective drive and had done the backup, I did try a restore in order to see if I could see the plex folder only and I could. But now I can't anymore.
What's the trick?
Thanks
How to copy parts of a external USB backup back to NAS
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Re: How to copy parts of a external USB backup back to NAS
Did you do a dedupe backup? Otherwise the external USB drive should just have a plain folder structure on it
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Re: How to copy parts of a external USB backup back to NAS
At the root of the USB disk you see a Backup 1.qdff folder.
If you go in there you get 2 folders
- dedup
- filedesc
and 2 files:
- QNAPHybridBackupSync.info
- QNAPHybridBackupSync_full_4.db
I guess I did a dedup backup then. Is that bad? I didn't know there were different ones.
Even when I try to restore the full USB Disk, it just puts those same files in my new volume. I can't access the plex folder.
If you go in there you get 2 folders
- dedup
- filedesc
and 2 files:
- QNAPHybridBackupSync.info
- QNAPHybridBackupSync_full_4.db
I guess I did a dedup backup then. Is that bad? I didn't know there were different ones.
Even when I try to restore the full USB Disk, it just puts those same files in my new volume. I can't access the plex folder.
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