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ReadyNAS Pro to RN516 Upgrade
I'm about to buy a RN516 with 6 Seagate 4TB 3.5" SATA3 64MB Cache OEM Hard Drive (ST4000VN000) that I will install myself. I currently keep all my media data on a ReadyNAS Pro 6350. I intend to us...
Nfs is a file sharing protocol like CIF/SMB or AFP. Since it is native to linux generally is the fastest protocol between two linux machines. You can easily select it in the backup menu.
Rsync is good at incremental backup and full preservation of owners and permissions. If you edit the backup job after the first time you run it to use rsync, then subsequent backups will use that. The remote share needs to have both enabled.
Note that if you create a new backup job, it will do a full backup the first time it runs even if the files are already in the destination share. You need to use the editing trick to avoid that.
Rsync is good at incremental backup and full preservation of owners and permissions. If you edit the backup job after the first time you run it to use rsync, then subsequent backups will use that. The remote share needs to have both enabled.
Note that if you create a new backup job, it will do a full backup the first time it runs even if the files are already in the destination share. You need to use the editing trick to avoid that.
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