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Restore Synology network backup after nas migration

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If you have changed the source server of a network backup, you may follow these steps in order to recover your backups without the need to transfer again all your files through the network : Connect to the target (backup) server Go in the NetBackup folder Go in the folder you want to recover (you may rename it if you wish) Delete all files at the root of this folder (not the subfolders) Go in the @app folder Delete all files at the root of this folder (not the subfolders) Create the backup task using the same target folder name as previously. You may receive an error message: "The operation failed.  Please login to DSM again and retry". Simply ignore it. Run the backup task Take care that if you have set a new user to the backup task on your target (backup) server since the last backup has been made. You have to ensure that the access rights for this new user are consistent along the whole folders' tree (use chown -R or check the corresponding checkbo...