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OS6 Backup feature
Hi all, Me again ! :D When a incremental backup runs from ReadyNAS (A) to an attached USB drive (B) it, of course, adds new files from A to B. But if files are removed from A, it seems that the...
Limerick_fr wrote:
But on my original backup, I managed to setup a single backup process which runs only once to backup the whole ReadyNAS to the USB HDD in one shot.
Here it seems that I have to setup a backup for each share ...
Instead of having a single process, multiple ones will have to run, am I right? 20 shares = 20 setup = 20 runs ?
If you do this trick on the source, then you will need multiple backup jobs. They would run sequentially, and can be on the same schedule. Personally I do back up my own NAS with one backup job per share, as it does give me a bit more flexibility on the destination(s) and scheduling.
However, you can back up the entire NAS with one backup job if you apply this trick in a somewhat different way.
You set up the USB destination folder as a share (it might already be one), and enable rsync on it - making it read/write, since it is a destination. Then instead of making the source "remote", you make the destination "remote" - using the same trick with 127.0.0.1.
Hi StephenB,
Thank you very much for your step by step description.
I guess I understood and manage to successfully test the connection.
But on my original backup, I managed to setup a single backup process which runs only once to backup the whole ReadyNAS to the USB HDD in one shot.
Here it seems that I have to setup a backup for each share, like I described with my very useful software (SyncBackPro, the one I use to backup network computers to the ReaDyNAS) in my previous post. Instead of having a single process, multiple ones will have to run, am I right? 20 shares = 20 setup = 20 runs ?
Limerick_fr wrote:
But on my original backup, I managed to setup a single backup process which runs only once to backup the whole ReadyNAS to the USB HDD in one shot.
Here it seems that I have to setup a backup for each share ...
Instead of having a single process, multiple ones will have to run, am I right? 20 shares = 20 setup = 20 runs ?
If you do this trick on the source, then you will need multiple backup jobs. They would run sequentially, and can be on the same schedule. Personally I do back up my own NAS with one backup job per share, as it does give me a bit more flexibility on the destination(s) and scheduling.
However, you can back up the entire NAS with one backup job if you apply this trick in a somewhat different way.
You set up the USB destination folder as a share (it might already be one), and enable rsync on it - making it read/write, since it is a destination. Then instead of making the source "remote", you make the destination "remote" - using the same trick with 127.0.0.1.
StephenB wrote:However, you can back up the entire NAS with one backup job if you apply this trick in a somewhat different way.
You set up the USB destination folder as a share (it might already be one), and enable rsync on it - making it read/write, since it is a destination. Then instead of making the source "remote", you make the destination "remote" - using the same trick with 127.0.0.1.
You are incredibly good at using these Netgear NAS and no more less helpful StephenB . Thank you so much.
The trick does exactly what I wanted. I must just check that it works on a daily purpose, which I believe it will.
Also this OS6 makes things much more easier to understand and setup.
Perhaps this kind of backup could be more easy to put in place (more self-explanatory) and then prevent to request for help and flood a forum :smileyembarrassed:
However it is a good way to meet kind people taking of there time to help newbies like me.
Thanks again Stephen.
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