Backup ReadyNas to ReadyNas with rsync and exclude lists

gdietz wrote:
Thank you so much for this code update. I was looking into it and considering using it as a roadmap - but I kept thinking the lack of the settings being visible to the UI would be problematic to someone other than me looking at the interface. I then looked at the config files and considered that maybe there is even a slightly better way to do this vs having a separate config file.

I decided to use a separate config file precisely because it was an uninstrusive approach. I needed to patch only one file and no changes were required to the FrontView UI.

As you point out, the integration could be better, using the UI instead of ssh, but the changes to the code would be greater and more difficult to maintain across firmware releases. As it stands, the same patch has worked for me across several firmware upgrades.

Maintaining the extra parameters also has the advantage that the file can be managed on a separate system and rsync'ed into place after changes are made.

I hope to eventually see the feature in a future firmware release.