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Riboflavin
Feb 07, 2014Aspirant
Backup BROKEN after failed rsync
RN102 running 6.1.6 I had an rsync backup setup to pull from a remote server over SSH. This backup was taking forever (~24 hours) and didn't seem to be making much progress at all, maybe 100mb per ...
vandermerwe
Feb 07, 2014Master
Riboflavin, when you say "the data is already on the NAS", did you actually get it there using the same backup task you are using now. StephenB is correct, newly created backup jobs will always do a full backup first time, then subsequently as you have set it up.
This is the reason you should try to do the first backup using nfs on the same lan, change the same task to use rsync, then resite the remote NAS. As the task will already have done a full backup, the next backup will be incremental.
This is the reason you should try to do the first backup using nfs on the same lan, change the same task to use rsync, then resite the remote NAS. As the task will already have done a full backup, the next backup will be incremental.
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