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Local rsync to USB
Hello, I have a readynas 102 with 2 4TB WD RED HDD's. OS 6.5.2. Homenetwork. Making a first time backup from a local folder to a local USB drive was very easy with the backup options in the NAS....
You can use this guide as a start: 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
Enable rsync on the source share. Make the source share "remote" in the backup job, and use 127.0.0.1 as the host. That is "localhost", so it is the NAS itself.
Thanks! I got two steps further than before, now stuck with path....
Source side: I choose remote for the source (my readyNAS), RSync Server and host 127.0.0.1 then i could test connect and it worked!
But I can't choose or dont know how to set (in the field Path) the correct path to one folder I want to Rsync to a specific folder on my USB drive ? Namely, I want to RSync the source Folder /data/Music
but If I type this or only /Music or with or without '/' or /data in the field Path, whatever, it doesn't connect anymore and gives me an error code 7....etc. How to solve this?
Destination side:
Now I choose local (not remote), then I could browse for my USB_HDD_4 (the WD Book over USB 3.0) and set the correct path for the folder Music
Then I could also choose under advanced [ Remove delete files on target] to get a proper copy of the source
Pieter_12 wrote:
Namely, I want to RSync the source Folder /data/Music
The path name should be the share name - Music - with no slashes.
You do need to have the rsync protocol enabled for the share (in the share settings).
Thanks, I managed to get connected to the right folder Music. The problem was that in a previous attempt I had created a login name and password for the Music folder on the source. This gave the error when I tried to connect without including the same inlog details. I removed this and now connections to the folder Music on my NAS is working. I will schedule this RSycn for tonight. I 'll let you know whether it worked.
It has finished after 5 days/120 Hours for about 3 TB! This is quite long, any clue why it took this long? could it be because it is the first time I full rsync this folder? Would a next time RSYNC be faster or not? Or should I just do a normal back up next time meaning I first have to erase all the data on the destination?
Thanks!
Looks like you were getting about 7 MB/sec. How was the drive formatted? What firmware are you running?
Future backups will be incremental, so it will only copy the data that has changed. They'll run faster (though the transfer rate might not improve, there will be a lot less to copy).
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