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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....
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).
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).
The drive was NTFS formatted and the FW was 6.5.2.
Any suggestions how I could speed up this RSync proces? Should the back USB drive have been formatted differently?
The NTFS software in 6.5.0 and later are pretty fast, so formatting the drive differently probably wouldn't matter very much. You could try formatting as ext4 or btrfs, but if you can't read the backup from your PC, then IMO that is a bad idea.
I think the issue is that you are running into the performance limits of the NAS (its CPU is much slower than the other NAS models).
Try running it again (incrementally) and see what times you get. 7 MB/sec is still decent for incremental backups - generally you are only updating a couple of gigabytes.
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