backup over Rsync - creating subfolders with name of shares

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I experienced the same issue as reported by Peterlilly on post "backup-over-Rsync-creating-subfolders-with-name-of-shares"

 

"I'm doing NAS to NAS backup from my new RN102 to my old Duo."

"The jobs connect and run okay; but what is happening is that the backup jobs are creating a new folder in the destination share that has the name of the source share. As these folders are empty, they then create a new full backup in that folder."

 

To avoid this issue of subfolder "sharename" creation, I found and successfully tested this workaround:

 

Backup job configured on the ReadyNAS x86 (OS v6.9.x) to push to an old ReadyNAS arm (OS v4.1.x):

 

Source:
Type: share
Name: share:Mysharename
Path: ./

 

Destination:
Type: remote
Name: remote:Serveur Rsync
Host: x.x.x.x
Port: 873
Path: Mysharename/

 

Note the ./ in source path and the trailing "/" in the destination path

 

Enjoy

 

NB: disclaimer - make sure you have offline backups of data, please test first, no warranty if this solution does not work or if rsync erease data