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Backup Schedule to other NAS drive
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to setup an automatic backup schedule to another NAS drive on the network? I was playing with the settings, however cant get it to work. If it is possibl...
So found the solution. Dont ask me how or why, but it works now suddenly.
After many tries, this is what I found to be the correct format of entering the backup destination info when connecting to Synology Rsync service from a Readynas NV+ v2 running Radiator 5.
BACKUP DESTINATION
Type: remote
Name: remote: Rsync Server
Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Path: NetBackup
Login: (username of the account you created on the Synology for the rsync service)
Password: (password of the account you created on the Synology for the rsync service)
After clicking "Test Connection" this should give a Successful message.
When if saved this backup configuration, and ran it, I received an error message telling me that the account was disabled. I could not figure out why this message was shown as I had setup everything by default on the Synology. I did notice that one setting I had not enabled as it was descibed in my humble opinion to be not needed. This was the "Enable rsync account". I though it would be worth the try to enable it and click on the "Edit rsync Account" button. This opened up a window with rsync accounts which showed to be empty. I clicked on the "Add" button and selected the rsync account which I had already created for the Rsync service and entered its password again. After saving it, suddenly the Readynas Backup worked after running ir from the Readynas Backup page.
Making it complete; I have also screenshots available of the Synology Rsync service configuration that worked for me however, I can only upload one attachement but no zip. any ideas how to add the couple of screenshots I have?
Keep in mind, I created a dedicated user called "rsync" which would only be allowed access to the Rsync NetBackup share location with Read/Write.
Hope this helps others.
Hi StephenB
Thanks for keep coming back solving my issues. :-)
Both NAS's are on local network.
The NAS I want to use for backing-up the Readynas NV+ v2 data is a Synology DS218j
I have smb and afp on both enabled as I am using mac and windows PC's on the network.
Have not worked with rsync, so not sure what it is and what it can do.
xbmcgotham wrote:
Have not worked with rsync, so not sure what it is and what it can do.
I definitely would use rsync for this. Generally it's the best way to do incremental NAS->NAS backups.
Are you backing up the Synology to the NV+ v2, or are you backing up the NV+ v2 to the Synology?
Hi, I am doing Readynas to Synology backup.
How would I set this up correctly on the Readynas and synology? Easy steps?
xbmcgotham wrote:
How would I set this up correctly on the Readynas and synology? Easy steps?
Unfortunately I don't have a synology, so I don't know exactly what the steps would be. Hopefully someone who does will chime in.
You could try setting up a ReadyNAS rsync backup to a Synology share, and see what happens. You would need to enable rsync on the synology side, and create credentials that you'd use in the ReadyNAS backup job.
There is some info on the synology side here: https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/file_rsync
The ReadyNAS info is here: https://kb.netgear.com/29788/ReadyNAS-Backup-FAQ
Hi,
You mean I need to enable rsync on both sides to be able to use it? Or only on the Synology NAS and than fillout the Synology rsync credentials in the Readynas backup schedular? But this would mean I would push instead of your initial suggestion to better pull?
In any case, I will check on the Synology tomorrow what rsync offers and get back here with an update. :-)
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