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BennTech
Aug 14, 2014Aspirant
Backup job copies ALL files instead only changes
I have a ReadyNAS NVX running 4.2.26. It has a share used for our ESXi server backups. I then have a ReadyNAS backup job that runs everyday and copies the backups from the NVX share to a USB drive a...
StephenB
Aug 14, 2014Guru - Experienced User
rsync has the capability of updating portions of files based on checksums, but the ReadyNAS command line used in frontview backup doesn't set those options. So it should only copy changed files (based on the usual attributes of timestamp and size).
You shouldn't need a username/password in your case, and the data remains in the unit, since the address is 127.0.0.1.
Your problem might be the use of NTFS. If for some reason the timestamp granularity differs, then the timestamps might never match. Did you check the full timestamps using ssh?
You shouldn't need a username/password in your case, and the data remains in the unit, since the address is 127.0.0.1.
Your problem might be the use of NTFS. If for some reason the timestamp granularity differs, then the timestamps might never match. Did you check the full timestamps using ssh?
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