I was naively hoping that I could "clone" the setup on one of my Diskstations to another, to have the second handy as a swap-in backup in case the first one completely failed. The Diskstation I was cloning does such things as run my mailserver, my reverse proxy, etc. The thought was that if the Diskstation went up in flames, I could just get on the router and redirect all the traffic that was directed its way to the cloned version of it instead.
So I backed up all its settings, file system, etc., using Hyperbackup, and then "restored" all that to the backup Diskstation. But all manner of settings aren't backed up and restored. For example, the reverse proxy setup in the Application Portal; the network settings (such as default http and https ports), etc. I could go on and on.
What this means is that if I ever had a Diskstation go down, and I wanted to restore it from its backup, there'd be tons of settings that I'd still have to remember what they were, and re-set manually. Is that really the way this is supposed to work? Is there NO WAY to set up a Diskstation identically to a failed one by restoring from the failed one's backup? That seems totally unsatisfactory.
So I backed up all its settings, file system, etc., using Hyperbackup, and then "restored" all that to the backup Diskstation. But all manner of settings aren't backed up and restored. For example, the reverse proxy setup in the Application Portal; the network settings (such as default http and https ports), etc. I could go on and on.
What this means is that if I ever had a Diskstation go down, and I wanted to restore it from its backup, there'd be tons of settings that I'd still have to remember what they were, and re-set manually. Is that really the way this is supposed to work? Is there NO WAY to set up a Diskstation identically to a failed one by restoring from the failed one's backup? That seems totally unsatisfactory.