BACKUPMON BACKUPMON v1.9.0 -Sep 6, 2025- Backup/Restore your Router: JFFS + NVRAM + External USB Drive! CIFS/SMB/NFS! (Available in AMTM!)

[ColDen]

DS220+ is a rather old device. What version of DSM is installed? What versions of VIFS/SMB are supported?

It was purchased 3 years ago.

 

[visortgw]

Hmmmm, I stand corrected DS220+ is newer than I thought, being released in 2020. DSM is latest available.

 

[visortgw]

Does user that you're specifying have access to mount point on NAS?

 

[ColDen]

Does user that you're specifying have access to mount point on NAS?

Yes

 

[CaptainSTX]

I have an older NAS also DJS120J.

Here are my settings to get BackUp Monitor working as my secondary backup. Primary is to a second USB thumb drive attached to the router.

Please choose from the various options below, which allow you to modify certain
customizable parameters that affect the operation of the secondary backup.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(1) : Enabled/Disabled : Enabled
(2) : Secondary Target Media Type : Network
(3) : Secondary Target Username : XXXXXXDrive2
(4) : Secondary Target Password (ENC) : UmVkQmlrZTIzMzkxI=
(5) : Secondary Target Path : \\\\192.168.xxx.25\\RouterBackup
|---- Secondary NFS Mount Options : N/A
(6) : Secondary Target Drive Mount Point : /tmp/mnt/RouterBackup
|---- Unmount Network Drive After Completion? : Yes
(7) : Secondary Target Directory Path : /router/RouterBackup
(8) : Secondary Backup Exclusion File : /jffs/addons/backupmon.d/pfexclusion.txt
(9) : Secondary Backup Retention : Monthly
|---- Purge Secondary Backups : No
|---- Purge Older Than (days) : 0
(10) : Secondary Backup/Restore Mode : Basic
|
(e) : Exit Back to Primary Backup Config

You need to create a folder on your NAS. In my case this was RouterBackup. You also may need to adjust CIFS. Hope this helps.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Rights, no issues from various other PCs or devices.

Here are the manual commands that you can try, one at a time... this is directly from BACKUPMON's code. Please send some feedback if you get any errors during any of these steps, OK? Also, wasn't sure if you tried SMB versions other than 3.02, but it would be good to try starting with 2.0, 2.1 and up. v2.1 seems to be a good compromise, since it's able to handle many of the older and newer devices. 3.02 doesn't work on some routers, but it does work on our GT-AX6000.

mkdir -p "/tmp/mnt/primary"
chmod 777 "/tmp/mnt/primary"
modprobe md4
mount -t cifs "\\\\192.168.50.62\\Backups" "/tmp/mnt/primary" -o "vers=2.1,username=admin,password=admin"
...
... (you should be able to see the contents of your network drive at this point)
...
cd /tmp/mnt/primary
ls
...
... (did you see anything?)
...
cd /tmp/mnt
umount -l "/tmp/mnt/primary"

 

[CaptainSTX]

Here are the manual commands that you can try, one at a time... this is directly from BACKUPMON's code. Please send some feedback if you get any errors during any of these steps, OK? Also, wasn't sure if you tried SMB versions other than 3.02, but it would be good to try starting with 2.0, 2.1 and up. v2.1 seems to be a good compromise, since it's able to handle many of the older and newer devices. 3.02 doesn't work on some routers, but it does work on our GT-AX6000.

mkdir -p "/tmp/mnt/primary"
chmod 777 "/tmp/mnt/primary"
modprobe md4
mount -t cifs "\\\\192.168.50.62\\Backups" "/tmp/mnt/primary" -o "vers=2.1,username=admin,password=admin"
...
... (you should be able to see the contents of your network drive at this point)
...
cd /tmp/mnt/primary
ls
...
... (did you see anything?)
...
cd /tmp/mnt
umount -l "/tmp/mnt/primary"

Good tip. In checking the settings on my Synology I had to set it to use SMB minimum of 1.0 maximum of 3.0.

 

[ColDen]

Here are the manual commands that you can try, one at a time... this is directly from BACKUPMON's code. Please send some feedback if you get any errors during any of these steps, OK? Also, wasn't sure if you tried SMB versions other than 3.02, but it would be good to try starting with 2.0, 2.1 and up. v2.1 seems to be a good compromise, since it's able to handle many of the older and newer devices. 3.02 doesn't work on some routers, but it does work on our GT-AX6000.

mkdir -p "/tmp/mnt/primary"
chmod 777 "/tmp/mnt/primary"
modprobe md4
mount -t cifs "\\\\192.168.50.62\\Backups" "/tmp/mnt/primary" -o "vers=2.1,username=admin,password=admin"
...
... (you should be able to see the contents of your network drive at this point)
...
cd /tmp/mnt/primary
ls
...
... (did you see anything?)
...
cd /tmp/mnt
umount -l "/tmp/mnt/primary"

Again thanks for your assistance, Viktor,
Got an unexpected family urgent matter to take care yesterday afternoon and I will try your manual commands this afternoon then report to you on the results.

 

[ColDen]

I have an older NAS also DJS120J.

Here are my settings to get BackUp Monitor working as my secondary backup. Primary is to a second USB thumb drive attached to the router.

Please choose from the various options below, which allow you to modify certain
customizable parameters that affect the operation of the secondary backup.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(1) : Enabled/Disabled : Enabled
(2) : Secondary Target Media Type : Network
(3) : Secondary Target Username : XXXXXXDrive2
(4) : Secondary Target Password (ENC) : UmVkQmlrZTIzMzkxI=
(5) : Secondary Target Path : \\\\192.168.xxx.25\\RouterBackup
|---- Secondary NFS Mount Options : N/A
(6) : Secondary Target Drive Mount Point : /tmp/mnt/RouterBackup
|---- Unmount Network Drive After Completion? : Yes
(7) : Secondary Target Directory Path : /router/RouterBackup
(8) : Secondary Backup Exclusion File : /jffs/addons/backupmon.d/pfexclusion.txt
(9) : Secondary Backup Retention : Monthly
|---- Purge Secondary Backups : No
|---- Purge Older Than (days) : 0
(10) : Secondary Backup/Restore Mode : Basic
|
(e) : Exit Back to Primary Backup Config

You need to create a folder on your NAS. In my case this was RouterBackup. You also may need to adjust CIFS. Hope this helps.

Thanks for jumping in...
I previously have created a folder on my NAS (Backups). Could you elaborate on the adjustment that you have done for CIFS?

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Again thanks for your assistance, Viktor,
Got an unexpected family urgent matter to take care yesterday afternoon and I will try your manual commands this afternoon then report to you on the results.

Hope everyone's ok! No rush!

 

[CaptainSTX]

Thanks for jumping in...
I previously have created a folder on my NAS (Backups). Could you elaborate on the adjustment that you have done for CIFS?

It is actually SMB that you need to look at and adjust if necessary

FILE SERVICES

SMB - enable

Advanced

General
Max SMB 3
MIN SMB 1

You then need to verify that VPMON - is within this range.

Things have changed slightly since I set up as Synology.

It also looks like Synology has added a SMB package/utility.