is there a way to have only the newest file on a share at one time, it's going to be a backup of a excel file and system image, so i would like to just upload it the NAS then unraid del the oldest one after there is a new one available..does this sound like a thing or not?

 

Not entirely clear what your asking for. If the file has the same name and it is stored at the same path, then it will replace the older file just like on any other computer.

oh so when i upload upload my excel file name workbook.xls and it put in the same share/folder it will replace it? does this work with the system image..(i'm not sure if system images are the same name everytime)...

9 hours ago, platyskill said:

does this work with the system image..(i'm not sure if system images are the same name everytime)...

I don't know what is creating the "system image". I create incremental images of my desktop computer on unRAID using Acronis and it takes care of these details.

 

Sounds like you will have to figure this out for your own setup.

system image, a image of your important and needed files u can use if your machine ever crashes and u need to restore it to working order.

That much I think he understood.  What software generates the "System Image" is what I think he had in mind.  Sorry if I'm way off base here.

unRAID doesn't manage "versions" of files.  The software writing files to your unRAID server will decide whether to overwrite the existing file, create a new one, mange multiple versions, etc.

17 hours ago, tdallen said:

unRAID doesn't manage "versions" of files.  The software writing files to your unRAID server will decide whether to overwrite the existing file, create a new one, mange multiple versions, etc.

so by this you mean windows would ask me everytime if i want to overwrite or create a new and such?

It's works no different than if you replace / overwrite a file via Windows on its own local drive.

1 hour ago, platyskill said:

so by this you mean windows would ask me everytime if i want to overwrite or create a new and such?

It might.  The decision whether to ask you to overwrite will be with Windows, or whatever application is writing the file.  unRAID wouldn't be involved.

 

It's been a while since I used Windows Backup to create a system image but I don't remember it prompting me like that.

6 hours ago, tdallen said:

It might.  The decision whether to ask you to overwrite will be with Windows, or whatever application is writing the file.  unRAID wouldn't be involved.

 

It's been a while since I used Windows Backup to create a system image but I don't remember it prompting me like that.

i also gotta figure out to how to change the File System on a drive, because when i tried to do a system image and direct it to the nas it said somthing about wrong file system.

The bottom line here is, all of the questions you are asking are not really questions about unRAID. They are questions about your other computer(s), their operating systems, and software.

 

And you haven't really told us anything about that.

 

unRAID as a NAS shouldn't really appear any different to your computer than any other network storage, or indeed, any other computer on the network that has file sharing.

Personally I don't use Windows Backup System Image much anymore.  I prefer something like Macrim Reflect or EaseUS Todo.  I boot the PC to be backed up from a USB stick prepared with those packages.  Then I perform the system image backup to a hard drive in a USB enclosure directly attached to the PC.  Finally I copy the system image up to unRAID.  This isn't the quickest way to do things, but it gives me a lot of control over a number of different situations I need to deal with.