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Excluding files from backup
I have several backup jobs scheduled on my 102. The backups copy an entire share, or a subfolder within a share to a second ReadyNAS (a Duo v1). I started getting a lot of backp errors caused by ...
Digsy wrote:
Ah. I get you now. the box you are referring to is only called "Protocol" when you first create the job. After that for some reason it changes to "Name". It is "WIndows/NAS (Timestamp)". I assume I should have chosen something different?
Yes - you should choose "rsync server" since you are on your local LAN. If you were backing up over the internet, you'd want rsync over ssh. Here's a guide you might find helpful: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29741/~/how-do-i-back-up-data-between-two-readynas-os-6-systems-(using-the-backup?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
Ah. I get you now. the box you are referring to is only called "Protocol" when you first create the job. After that for some reason it changes to "Name". It is "WIndows/NAS (Timestamp)". I assume I should have chosen something different?
Digsy wrote:
Ah. I get you now. the box you are referring to is only called "Protocol" when you first create the job. After that for some reason it changes to "Name". It is "WIndows/NAS (Timestamp)". I assume I should have chosen something different?
Yes - you should choose "rsync server" since you are on your local LAN. If you were backing up over the internet, you'd want rsync over ssh. Here's a guide you might find helpful: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29741/~/how-do-i-back-up-data-between-two-readynas-os-6-systems-(using-the-backup?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
OK I get it - thanks. However, as my "backup NAS" in this case is an old skool ReadyNAS Duo v1 running RAIDiator 4.1.14, it doesn't have the RSYNC option for the destiantion share. Only CIFS, AFP and HTTP/S. So I guess I am stuffed?
*EDIT* Ignore this. I found how to switch on RSYNC on my older NAS. I shall try changing one of my backup jobs over to RSYNC tonight.
Thanks :)
Digsy wrote:
OK I get it - thanks. However, as my "backup NAS" in this case is an old skool ReadyNAS Duo v1 running RAIDiator 4.1.14, it doesn't have the RSYNC option for the destiantion share. Only CIFS, AFP and HTTP/S. So I guess I am stuffed?
*EDIT* Ignore this. I found how to switch on RSYNC on my older NAS. I shall try changing one of my backup jobs over to RSYNC tonight.
I run daily backup jobs to my duo v1 too (also rsync).
The test worked. I didn't bother emptying the destination folder before running it, but the incremental backup seems to have figured out which files had changed nonetheless. It seemed to run faster, too. I will convert all my other backup jobs to RSYNC tonight.
As for the original purpose of this thread: Can I now just add "thumbs.db" to the exclusion list and the backup job will ignore all instances of this file?
Digsy wrote:
As for the original purpose of this thread: Can I now just add "thumbs.db" to the exclusion list and the backup job will ignore all instances of this file?
That should work. There are some nuances in rsync exclude syntax - notably that path names are relative. But that won't be a problem here.
rsync is case sensitive btw, so thumbs.db won't match Thumbs.db
All working! :) Many thanks!
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