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Jarkod
Jul 02, 2014Guide
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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- StephenBGuru - Experienced UserAll frontview backup jobs create a mirror of the share contents - incremental updates the changed files, full backup copies everything.
- JarkodGuideActually, 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. - StephenBGuru - Experienced UserYou 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.
- JarkodGuideOk. 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? - StephenBGuru - Experienced UserWell, 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. - JarkodGuideStrange 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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