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Aspirant

Jul 27, 2015

ReadyNAS Rsync to FreeNAS

I have a ReadyNAS running RAIDiator 4.2.27 (the latest version) that is attached to my home network. I have installed the latest firmware updates to the NAS. My home network has no directory service ...

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 28, 2015

I didn't have an old RAIDiator NAS handy to test this out with, so I used the RAIDiator VM with v4.2.23. Should be about the same. FreeNAS is at 9.3 STABLE.

Here's how I configured:

On the FreeNAS side:

Created a ZFS volume called "tank"
Created a CIFS share called "test" to point to "/mnt/tank/test"
This also created the directory for me.
Permissions on "/mnt/tank/test" defaulted to being owned by root:wheel.
I popped open a shell via the UI and did a "chown nobody:nogroup /mnt/tank/test".
Configured an rsync "module" called test pointing to /mnt/tank/test
An rsync "module" is basically a share.
User and group are set to nobody:nogroup, just like the permissions above.
Ensure that "rsync" is enabled under "Services"

On the ReadyNAS side:

Create backup job:
Source: Share (backup)
Destination: (Remote: Rsync Server)
Host: IP address of FreeNAS
Path: test (same as the rsync module)

Hit "Go" on the ReadyNAS side to start the backup job and I had a successful run.

Just going on the information you provided I'd say you're probably running into a permissions related issue.

User/group "Grunbay", as you set in your initial post, needs to have permission to this folder.

Without changing the ownership on the "test" folder I created in FreeNAS I got the following message back from the ReadyNAS backup log:

Reason for failure:
Error encountered copying data from source path /backup/ ==> 10.200.101.159::test due to permission denial on one or more files.

Grunbay111

Aspirant

Jul 28, 2015

Very helpful post, I was able to get the job to run, but it fails. I will play with it a bit and get back to you.

Thanks a million!

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 28, 2015
Which version of Rsync is running on FreeNAS?

When the job fails do you get an error message or a log explaining why?
- Grunbay111
  Aspirant
  Jul 28, 2015
  I am running the Rsync version that came with my Stable FreeNAS download. I don't know what version that is. How do I confirm?
  - Grunbay111
    Aspirant
    Jul 28, 2015
    A log report from the faied backup is shown below:
    
    NCREMENTAL Backup started. Tue Jul 28 00:18:16 EDT 2015
    Job: 001
    Protocol: rsync
    Source: [Backup2]/
    Destination: 192.168.1.145::Backup2TestModule
    
    sending incremental file list
    ./
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    .AppleDB/
    .AppleDB/__db.001
    .AppleDB/__db.002
    .AppleDB/__db.003
    .AppleDB/__db.004
    .AppleDB/__db.005
    .AppleDB/__db.006
    .AppleDB/cnid2.db
    .AppleDB/db_errlog
    .AppleDB/lock
    .AppleDB/log.0000000001
    .AppleDesktop/.volinfo
    KTM/
    KTM/.AppleDouble/
    Network Trash Folder/.AppleDouble/.Parent
    Temporary Items/.AppleDouble/.Parent
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.__db.001.vSua0b" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.__db.002.mrDw5b" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.__db.003.HfLASF" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.__db.004.vTYkIy" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.__db.005.DHKgzU" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.__db.006.8BTsQ7" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.cnid2.db.9ST8HZ" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.db_errlog.26Raex" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.lock.FhxfMG" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync: chgrp "/.AppleDB/.log.0000000001.en7Qn4" (in Backup2TestModule) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
    sent 184475 bytes received 70299 bytes 169849.33 bytes/sec
    total size is 37721190 speedup is 148.06
    rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1070) [sender=3.0.9]