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Dummies guide to synchronising 2 NAS'
Hi Team. I'll apologise ahead of time but I've searched on this requirement and found numerous references to problems doing this, but no 'Dummies Guide' to configuring a back-up of one ReadyNAS to ...
Sandshark wrote: Except that this does not fully synchronize the two devices. Any file deleted from the primary device is not also deleted from the backup. So if you have a lot of temporary files, the backup will ultimately fill up. From what I have Googled, the rsync command has the capability of doing it, but Netgear has not implemented the option from Frontview backup. All they have implemented is the ability to clean the destination directory before the backup, which makes every backup a full backup.
You're incorrect on this point - Netgear has implemented that option for rsync in frontview backup.
"Remove deleted files on source" is the name of the feature in OS4.
"remove deleted file on target" is the new name in OS6 - its on the advanced tab.
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