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Jarkod's avatar
Jarkod
Guide
Jul 02, 2014

How to sync NAS and USB drive

I've got a collection of photos on my PC. I sync it with a catalog (a share) on NAS using DeltaCopy everyday evening. I want to make a backup of the NAS catalog on the USB drive once a week but I don't want to make an incremental copy or a full backup. What I want to have is a mirror of the NAS catalog on the USB drive. Is this possible to make such a backup job in FrontView?

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    All frontview backup jobs create a mirror of the share contents - incremental updates the changed files, full backup copies everything.
  • Actually, they don't. They can make a full backup first time, then I can only force them to delete files on a backup destaination before making a full backup again. This way I'll have a mirror of the NAS share, but every time hundreds of GBs has to be copied from NAS to usb drive. I want to avoid this time-consuming operation and copy only new files (can be done) AND remove deleted files on source - and I can't see any way of doing that.
    There's a relevant option on the Advanced tab in a backup job settings but it's grey out. No matter if I choose share: USB_HDD_1 or usb:External Storage (USB Front) as a destination, the 'Remove deleted files on source' in inactive.
    Seems the only way to keep the NAS and a backup on an usb drive in sync is to make a full backup job.
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    You can use rsync even with a USB drive (using 127.0.0.1 as the destination IP address). Then the "remove deleted files on source" option will be enabled.
  • Ok. so I'm (probably) half way through. I chose in Destination tab:
    1. Type: remote
    2. Name: remote:Rsync Server
    3. Host: 127.0.0.1
    and tested connecton - it worked. But the problem now is that I want to backup a share TEST into a folder TEST on a USB drive (in general, every share on NAS will have its own folder on the drive where it'll be backuped into).
    When I enter in a path field:
    1. 'TEST', I get a message 'Successfully connected to 127.0.0.1::TEST' but when I start a job I get 'Error backup job 'TEST': error in data stream. Please check remote rsync server settings' .
    2. 'TEST/' or 'TEST\' give the same
    3. '\TEST' and '/TEST' result in 'Unable to connect to host' message.
    What should I enter into the path field to have the TEST share backuped into the TEST folder on the USB drive?
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Well, TEST won't work, since that just makes the destination the same as the source.

    I'm not certain here, but I believe you need the USB volume name as part of the path. Something like USB_HDD_1_1\TEST

    Case is of course significant.
  • Strange thing, I remember answering an hour or two after StephenB's post but my post's disapeared somehow.
    In case somebody had a similar problem: the correct path is "USB_HDD_1/" (w/o quotes). So the final settings are:
    Source
    type: share
    name: share: TEST
    Destination
    type: remote
    name: remote: Rsync server
    host: 127.0.0.1
    path: USB_HDD_1/
    Advanced
    Remove deleted files on source: ticked

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