Restore from a specific date

[robmaltsystems]

Apologies for the newbie question. I've set-up a backup job that does a backup locally from one storage area to another (on different disks). It runs every four hours. I kind of expected to be able to select a point in time, e.g. yesterday to do a restore but the dialog only seems to show the last backup?

[alokeprasad]

Is versioning enabled in the backup settings?

[robmaltsystems]

Ahh no, it's not enabled and don't seem to be able to turn it on now. The option is disabled

[robmaltsystems]

I suspect this can't be turned on after a job has been saved/run - so will have to delete and re-create the backup I assume?

[alokeprasad]

I don't know for sure. I am still using jobs defined the the previous version (HBS2). I don't want to edit those in case I lose my settings.

Leave the old job as is and create a new one and see if you can enable versioning. From what I understand, this will force the use of QDedup and proprietary BU file format. But it is rumored that this limitation will go away in the next update to HBS3

[robmaltsystems]

It doesn't seem possible to change versioning after the job has been created. I've created a test backup job with versioning on and that's working fine. Fortunately oodles of free space on the storage pool so can set-up a parallel backup job and then delete the original.

[robmaltsystems]

Supplemental information - if you turn on versioning, you can't disable dedupe - no problem with this as dedupe is a good idea IMO. And once versioning is turned on, it can't be turned off. You can tweak the retention settings though. Fine with all of this. Bit of feedback would be to make the bit about turning versioning on a little more visible/obvious.

[alokeprasad]

Some of us are avoiding Dedup so that we can access files from the destination drive using File Station, SMB access or even direct connecting a USB drive (I use NTFS) to a Windows machine.
Dedup saves files in a proprietary format that requires the use of Qnap's restore/read software.