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Mapping readynas to readynas
Is there a way to link/map/share a drive on one ReadyNAS unit directly to another ReadyNAS unit without having a computer between the two? I run SABNZBD on one of my units and I want it to put the d...
CDitty wrote:
That is how I was planning on handling the file destinations. But how would I map a drive from one readynas to the other? All the drives are network sharable but I can't find a way to do it readynas to readynas.
I can create a new share but that is only for that readynas. Not pointing to another.
Again, there are three ways. Let's assume that the destination share is called TV.
If you are using your own post-processing scripts you can just copy the file to the remote TV share. You could use smbclient or (probably better) rsync directly from the post-process script. No mapping is required. You can't do this from the web UI.
The second way is to go into the NAS with SSH and create a folder on the data volume (with mkdir) and mount the remote share using the linux mount command. This is "mapping". You can't do this from the web UI either.
The third way uses the frontview backup jobs - crude but simple. If the destination share is called TV, then create a local share called TV. Move the TV stuff to the local TV share, and regularly schedule a frontview backup job to copy the files to the destination. This isn't mapping, and it requires copying. But it can be done using the web ui tools.
That is how I was planning on handling the file destinations. But how would I map a drive from one readynas to the other? All the drives are network sharable but I can't find a way to do it readynas to readynas.
I can create a new share but that is only for that readynas. Not pointing to another.
CDitty wrote:
That is how I was planning on handling the file destinations. But how would I map a drive from one readynas to the other? All the drives are network sharable but I can't find a way to do it readynas to readynas.
I can create a new share but that is only for that readynas. Not pointing to another.
Again, there are three ways. Let's assume that the destination share is called TV.
If you are using your own post-processing scripts you can just copy the file to the remote TV share. You could use smbclient or (probably better) rsync directly from the post-process script. No mapping is required. You can't do this from the web UI.
The second way is to go into the NAS with SSH and create a folder on the data volume (with mkdir) and mount the remote share using the linux mount command. This is "mapping". You can't do this from the web UI either.
The third way uses the frontview backup jobs - crude but simple. If the destination share is called TV, then create a local share called TV. Move the TV stuff to the local TV share, and regularly schedule a frontview backup job to copy the files to the destination. This isn't mapping, and it requires copying. But it can be done using the web ui tools.
Gotcha. I didn't understand exactly how you were suggesting. I wasn't aware that you can actually call rsync from sab. I'll have to look into that and then see what I can figure out.
Thanks for the suggestions. Much appreciated.
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I'm attempting this now in testing, but wouldn't I still need to mount a drive to the other readynas before rsync would work?
I am able to create a mount from one NAS to the other but I must be root to do it. Once I do that, I don't have permissions to right to the mapped directory due to permissions. I've tried changing the owner and that didn't work. How would I go about making the drive map every time with a normal user?
I'm somewhat familiar with mount and fstab but a quick test didn't auto-mount like I wanted.
CDitty wrote:
I am able to create a mount from one NAS to the other but I must be root to do it. Once I do that, I don't have permissions to right to the mapped directory due to permissions. I've tried changing the owner and that didn't work. How would I go about making the drive map every time with a normal user?
I'm somewhat familiar with mount and fstab but a quick test didn't auto-mount like I wanted.
This approach is trickier than just using rsync. Does the owner/group of the destination share use the same UID/GID on the source NAS? You could also try allowing guest access for the destination share.
Though I know that automount on demand is possible, I've never needed to do it.
The configuration changes for automount might not survive a firmware update, so you should make sure you archive them somewhere (and also know how to reverse them).
CDitty wrote:
I'm attempting this now in testing, but wouldn't I still need to mount a drive to the other readynas before rsync would work?
No. You just need to enable rsync on the destination share.
I tried the rsync last night and it failed. I'm at work and have slept, but I believe this is the command I used last night.
rsync -a --remove-source-files --whole-file banner.jpg //192.168.1.80/Files
And ofcourse I can't remember the error it gave, but it was something that made me think it couldn't find the other box even though I was on it in a browser window. That's why I thought about using mount.
I do have rsync enabled on both NAS devices.
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