The aim of this exercise is to create shadow copies on personal FreeNAS shares at a maximum frequency of one every 10 minutes for the last 12 hours. The idea here is that my creative writing tends to be heavy and bursty, occurring over long hours in a single session. It’s on these occasions that …
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Enabling Shadow Copies in Windows 7
Curiously, Windows Protection is turned on for the system drive (C:) in Windows 7, but the Shadow Copy service is not running by default. To ensure that VSS service operates whenever the computer is on, change the service Startup type to Automatic (Delayed Start). By default, Windows shadow copies are created whenever a restore point …
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Resilio Sync Setup for IOS 8+ Clients (legacy)
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to use Resilio Sync to back up the camera folder on IOS 8+ clients to a legacy FreeNAS server (version 11.1 or below). A later version of this post using a modern FreeNAS server (version 11.2 or above) can be found here. Assumptions The …
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Resilio Sync Setup for Android 4+ Clients (legacy)
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to use Resilio Sync to selectively back up folders on Android 4+ clients to a legacy FreeNAS server (version 11.1 or below). A later version of this post using a modern FreeNAS server (version 11.2 or above) can be found here. Assumptions The reader …
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Resilio Sync Setup for FreeNAS (legacy)
Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you are setting up Resilio Sync on a legacy version of FreeNAS (version 11.1 or earlier). A refresh of this post, which uses Resilio Sync under more modern versions of FreeNAS (version 11.2 or later) can be found here. Assumptions The guide is suitable for a small …
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