SETUP Help Request - Network Drive
I have added a Western Digital MyCloud Network Drive to my system.
It works well and I us it as a Backup Destination via Acronis 2016 through Windows.
However, when I boot to the Acronis Emergency Disk, I don't know how to map the drive so I can access my Acronis Backup.
The drive is considered a NAS drive.
I have the drive's IP Address and MAC Address, but I get confused when I browse via the Emergency Boot Interface.
Would appreciate any help.
I used to have a WD My Cloud as well, and now I am using a Synology NAS.
If your computer has an Ethernet connection, there is a high chance that the recovery CD, in its Linux version, will be able to browse the network neighborhood as you "browse for backup". You should see the SMB/CIFS shares there, just like you would under Windows. If you dont' see the shares, make sure the recovery CD can see the network at all.
If your computer has a wireless adapter, this is a higher risks that the driver is not supported by the Linux version of the recovery CD. First try to connect to the wireless network, and verify you can see the SMB shares.
If this doesn't work, produce a mustangPE-based recovery CD. Google it. It is similar to creaiting a WinPE based disk, but you can add other tools on the CD to map network shares in WindowPE before launching Acronis.
I'll try that, but I think I did last boot. I'll report back what I find.
Do you think I should submit a ticket to Acronis?
Success. I went to computers near me, workgroups, wdmycloud.
Im not sure if this helped, but I created a new rescue disk. Thinking Acronis my add something to the boot disk now that I have a network drive.
The WD MyCloud is hard wired to my router, and my router is hard wired to my PC.
Thanks for the help.
Great. Try to do a recovery from the NAS. One of the reasons I switched NAS a while ago is that Acronis was working just fine in Windows (creating backups, validating and stuff), but recoveries failed from the NAS. The backups were deemed corrupted. I had to copy the TIB files to a USB disk to recover. I think it had to do with the proprietary file system and disk setup in this WD NAS, or the they way implemented SMB, or something like that. Maybe it is not the case any longer with the more recent WD NAS and with 2016. Make sure you try.
Ok. Thanks.
I have two backup locations. My WD MyCloud and an eSATA drive.
I know the eSATA works...I've used it and Acronis saved my bacon.
Is there way to test restore without actually doing a restore?
My system disk is a SSD. So I want to avoid unnecessary restores.
I have a spare hard drive. I'll hook it up to my USB port and try a restore to it.
I don't know if you consider this a valid text. But I booted to the rescue disk and restored one directory to a USB drive. All the files restored. So I guess I'm ok?
William,
You should be fine with that confirmation. I can confirm that a restore indeed will work as I have a similiar setup using a WD MyBook connected to my router via USB and have performed successful OS disk restores from that drive.
Thanks for the help.
Yes, if you can restore at least one file you have a higher level of confidence you can restore the entire image.
BTW, don't worry about writing data to an SSD. Depending on the disk, you can write the entire disk everyday for years and years before you start seeing impact on performance.
What is important, before memory degradation, is to have the SSD aligned (Windows does this automatically when you install on a blank disk, and ATI keeps it aligned automatically on restores) and to use an OS and disk controller that can talk on how to TRIM the disk.