Uniti Core backup store on NAS has lost its status

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I had created a backup on my NAS and successfully backed up my Core to it. I now want to backup some new rips but, although the Core can see the store, it no longer recognises it as a backup drive and merely as a shared drive like any other folder on the NAS.

I also backup to a USB drive that I plug into the USB port and there are no problems with that.

Any ideas how I can recover the backup status without starting again?

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First thing to try is a power off restart of your Core. That worked for me with a similar issue.

If that doesn’t work then I would turn everything off and restart in the order router, any switch, NAS, Core, streamer and wait for each to finish starting up before you do the next one.
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David

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Thanks for replying so quickly David. I had already tried the power off restart. So I will work through the longer plan and report back.Fingers crossed!

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No joy I am afraid. Everything switched off and started in order. The Core still sees the backup folder but does not recognise it as a backup drive.

At some stage the NAS set up a recycle bin in the folder. I have deleted it but wonder whether that in some way might have been the source of the problem. But I have backed up more than once before. Hmmmm, I am at a loss.

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I’m afraid I’m not quite sure what to suggest. You could just let it do a whole backup again I suppose. But otherwise you may need someone more familiar with backups to a NAS than I am to advise you.

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David

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Thanks for trying David. Obviously something has happened which makes the Core think the NAS folder is no longer considered to be a backup drive although I am mystified as to what that could be.

I think I might have a go at starting afresh as you suggest.

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Problem solved! For future reference, I must at some point have changed the SMB settings back to only using SMB 2 and above. Switching SMB1 back on solved the issue.

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That is very interesting and thank you very much @PW42 for reporting this back here. I don’t know what software you are running but I think Windows has switched SMB1 off by default in recent updates. Possibly a firmware update in your NAS did the same? I think the Core does use SMB1…

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David

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