Recover image from NAS drive using TI CD Boot

Hi sparkyguy,

I see you asked about whether TI would be able to see your NAS drive previously. Did you download the latest ISO as was suggested at that time and did it not work? Have you upgraded since? May be you need to do that again because I can see no reason why a newly built boot CD would not work.

Thanks for the reply bin,
Yes, I even redownloaded and reburned the iso today, just to make certain. I had originally posted to make sure TI Home had the ability to do so before I originally purchased the NAS (in my case a Synology DS209+). I can easily do a backup to the NAS and restore from it within Windows but if I launch TI from the CD, I don't see how how I can browse to the NAS to do the restore. If I try to browse to the NAS, or click on anything other than what is "local" to my computer, it comes up with an error that the device cannot be found. I've also attempted to enter the actual IP address & port of my NAS, and that also comes up with the same error. I'm sure the NAS is visible on the network, because if I reboot into Windows, it can easily be seen and mapped any way I would like. I could not find much information in either the "Help" section or the Wiki on doing backups to a NAS, so I'm not quite sure how to go about it if I start TI thru the CD. Is there a step-by-step help section somewhere?

Are other network shares available when booted to the TI CD? In other words, is it just the NAS TI can't access?

If no network access is available, it's likely that the TI CD doesn't include the NIC drivers for your computer.

If another computer is available, can it access the NAS when booted to the TI CD?

If you boot to a Live Linux CD (Ubuntu, for example), can you access the NAS successfully?

sparkyguy545 wrote:

Thanks for the reply bin
Is there a step-by-step help section somewhere?

You're welcome. I don't know of any step by step guides regarding this but there may be things of interest here in Grovers Index, may be sections 8 and 42 could be of interest.

Some Progress to report.

My setup has my NAS attached directly (via cable) to my wireless router. After your responses, I realized that both computers that I tried with the Linux TI Boot CD were wireless nodes. Therefore, the Linux TI Boot CD likely can't see the NAS because it doesn't load any wi-fi NIC drivers. As a test, I direct connected one PC to the router with a cable and if I boot to the CD, I'm able to now connect to the NAS via ftp (after I entered the address, port, etc.). Would this be the only way to do this on a CD-booted restore? Since I can't easily "map" the NAS when booting from the CD, I don't really see any other way to do this. A restore using the CD-boot would only be an "emergency" type event anyway, one that I would only use if the PC could not boot Windows, it wouldn't really be the end of the world. I guess that poses two more questions:
1) Would it be difficult to modify the Linux TI boot CD to load wi-fi drivers? I've only played with Linux (Ubuntu) a bit, and I'm far from fluent in Linux.
2) Would it be possible to "map" the NAS so that I could browse to it without entering all the ftp parameters?

Ultimately, as long as I can get to the *.tib file, I could always keep a cat5 cable handy and remember I need to ftp into the NAS box during an emergency restore . . . if that's the only way to do this.

is beyond my knowledge

As far as I know. WiFi is not supported in the Linux-based (Full Mode) version of TI.

Using a cable is usually much faster and much more stable than WiFi when it comes to doing restores.

You may be able to add the necessary WiFi NIC drivers into a BartPE/VistaPE/WinPE build, but I've never tried it. You can map normal Windows shares in BartPE/VistaPE/WinPE (not sure about the FTP NAS).

I don't know how large the image is, but you could use the other computer to copy the image from the NAS to a USB drive and then restore from the USB drive. Or, if the NAS supports it, connect it via USB directly to the computer.

OK,
I'll keep playing around. At least I can ftp to it over cable. If I come up with anything I think might be useful to other forum readers, I'll update. Thanks for helping me get this far.