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Dewdman42
Jan 20, 2026Virtuoso
NAS to NAS backup without nesting
Here's a question for how to best setup ReadyNAS to ReadyNAS backup in front view, using rsync...
I have had them backing up for some time, no biggie, however one annoying thing is that when I backup pulling from the backup NAS, I setup the backup job and specified the remote NAS as the server and for PATH I specified the share name, or browsed for it.
I did not see any way to specify, say:
share/*
I had to specify the share to backup, so I ahve that name for PATH.
For the local destination I specified the local share name and also a path, which I chose to use the name of the remote share.
I opted to put each backup on its own share, one share on the backup server for every share on the main NAS, but because of the way I did that backup, it put the backup inside a folder named the same as the main NAS share. In theory this could be good I guess? But anyway now that I'm trying to restore, it will only restore also to a folder on the main NAS..which then has to all be moved after the fact.
I think I would prefer to have something closer to parity so that I pull from either direction and the rsync process will just bring the local machine up to date according to what is remote. Though I'm not sure if either one will remove stuff locally if its not on the remote?
Anyway, what do you guys do, what is your preferred scenario and if so, what would be the best configuration in each direction so that I can do easy restores right back in place. If I only lost a few things, for example, it would be nice to just do a pull and bring anything back that is missing, but if the destination is also removing content as I remove it locally...then no...I wouldn't want to do that during a restore, that would be bad. But its annoying to have to mv everything out of the sub folder after restore. I already ran somehow into a problem where mv complained about non-empty folders and then left things broken enough I had to basically re-restore everything from scratch again.
what are your thoughts on these matters?
2 Replies
- SandsharkSensei
In the Destination box, put a single forward slash "/".
- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
Dewdman42 wrote:
I opted to put each backup on its own share, one share on the backup server for every share on the main NAS, but because of the way I did that backup, it put the backup inside a folder named the same as the main NAS share.
You prevent that by putting a / in the path field after you create the backup job.
See step 16 here:
Note this is only an issue with "push" backups (remote destination). Personally I use "pull" (remote source), because my backup NAS are on power schedules.
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