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tech101
Jul 27, 2020Aspirant
Why no option "remove the contents of backup destination" with backup to NFS?
I've setup my ReadyNAS 102 on version 6.10.3 to perform some backups to a Linux NFS server. The backups are set to run weekly and are full backups each and every time. After the first full backup com...
StephenB
Jul 27, 2020Guru - Experienced User
That is odd (and I've confirmed that on my own system as well).
The option is there if the source is remote, and the destination is local - but not the other way around.
If rsync is available, then that could be an alternative (giving you the "advanced" option to remove files that are no longer on the source).
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