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Mortis360
Oct 01, 2013Aspirant
ReadyNAS RN314, OS 6.1.2 backup loop?
I´m trying to take backup of my ReadyNAS RN314 with OS 6.1.2 to an external USB-harddrive. I only have about 500 GB stored on it, when I setup a backup job, it seems to never stop, it fills the hardd...
vandermerwe
Oct 03, 2013Master
If you backup at the share level snapshots will also be included unless you use rsync for backup and specifically add the snapshot folder to the exclusion list.
It is possible to use rsync to backup to a usb disk.
There isn't an option to have multiple shares in a single job.
Unless you have a very large number of shares, setting up a job for each share is not that onerous and of course you only need to do it once. It allows you to to be specific about exclusions (like snapshot folders and recycle bins).
It is possible to use rsync to backup to a usb disk.
There isn't an option to have multiple shares in a single job.
Unless you have a very large number of shares, setting up a job for each share is not that onerous and of course you only need to do it once. It allows you to to be specific about exclusions (like snapshot folders and recycle bins).
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