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Aspirant

Sep 30, 2016

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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....

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StephenB
Sep 30, 2016
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).

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Oct 07, 2016

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).

Pieter_12

Aspirant

Oct 07, 2016

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?