I’m trying to use my MyCloudEx2Ultra as a local backup, with the long goal of then having it copied again offsite.
I did a simple robocopy which took most of a day to move most files into a newly created folder, and set another one to run the next day. First one looked like it ran fine, files were there, no issues. Call this data A.
The second (Data B) bugged out for reasons I don’t think related to the MyCloud - it created one folder and several files and just kept repeatedly nesting copies over and over and over of the same things. I successfully deleted Data B, but then the folder with Data A became flagged as hidden. I was able to view it by typing in its direct network address and all of Data A was readable, but I was unable to take ownership of the parent folder or unflag the folder as hidden. Bizarrely, the folder does not show up even when the folder options are set to show hidden files and folders. file name did not being with a dot.
I figured I would cut my losses, make a new share, and just copy Data A from one to the other and then delete the parent directory to not have a cursed hidden folder on my NAS. This worked mostly, but flagged a good number of folders as having file names too long to copy - This didn’t make sense to me, as they had copied fine onto the partition originally, and were just getting new file addresses on the platter.
Frustrated, I have gone back to square one. I have deleted the two shares and going to redo my original robocopy - did I anger Linux ghosts? is the computer I’m trying to back up dieing? its been scanned for malware and viruses and nothing found but it is a very old machine that I’m trying to backup before it kicks the bucket.
