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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 ba...
StephenB
Jan 21, 2026Guru - 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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