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michelefaccini
Dec 28, 2013Aspirant
Rsnapshot installed...nothing is happening...
Hi all, I've just installed this addon and commented out the following line in the addons-config/rsnapshot/rsnapshot.conf file : backup /etc/ localhost/ which should backup my etc folder to the ...
fastfwd
Jan 07, 2014Virtuoso
michelefaccini wrote:
snapshot_root /Michele-pc/k:/TEST_BACKUP/
where Michele-pc is my Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Desktop PC
and k:/TEST_BACKUP is a shared folder (network access to everyone)
Executing rsnapshot hourly from the putty shell, I had a whole bunch of lines....
....
BUT NOTHING IN THE DESTINATION FOLDER
It looks to me as though you have successfully backed up to a directory on the ReadyNAS called /Michele-pc/k:/TEST_BACKUP/. Have you checked to see whether your files are in that directory?
If you want programs running on the ReadyNAS to see your PC, mount the PC's shared folder as a Samba share on the ReadyNAS. See here for instructions:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-mount-remote-windows-partition-windows-share-under-linux.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configure-a-system-to-automount-a-samba-share-with-etcfstab/
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