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Luminary

Dec 17, 2015

Remove contents of backup destination option not working

Hi, Problem occcurs on NAS 314, NAS Pro (OS6) and NAS Ultra (OS6) I have a backup I run every day of /data folder (hence all my shares). It is rsynced to a usb drive attached to the NAS to (...

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BrianL2

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Dec 17, 2015

Hi davidr1,

Does this happen using other backup options like Windows Timestamp or Archive Bit? Also, which Firmware is running in your ReadyNAS unit?

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

davidr1

Luminary

Dec 17, 2015

Hi BrianL,

I use linux - ubuntu 14.02.3:

rsync in linux does delete the folder contents. However, as my PC is not running all the time I need this to work on the NAS.

All nas units are running 6.4.1. Looking at monthly backups I found the same problem was occurring in at least the previous two versions.

I notice the logs sent by email say:

Successfully completed backup job pro_data_backup.



-------- Backup Job Information --------
Backup Job Name: pro_data_backup
Backup Job Type: Incremental
Protocol: rsync
Backup Source: [volume:data]/
Backup Destination: [remote:rsync]/192.168.x.x::USB_HDD_1

The backup is definitely set as a Full backup Every time, not Incremental.

Best regards,

David

davidr1
Luminary
Feb 13, 2016
polite 'bump'
- BrianL2
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Feb 15, 2016
  Hi davidr1,
  
  Will you give 6.4.2 a try and other USB drives and see if the behavior is the same.
  
  Kind regards,
  
  BrianL
  NETGEAR Community Team
  - davidr1
    Luminary
    Feb 17, 2016
    Hi BrianL,
    Nas314, Ultra2, Pro2 using 6.4.2
    
    I have exhaustively tested as per your request and the problem remains. The folder is not deleted and it appears only incremental backups are taking place. If the folder was being deleted then there would not be files or folders that no longer exist still in the folder , right?
    I have tried:
    Removeable usb drives
    external hdd
    
    Formatted to:
    usb: fat32, ntfs, ext4
    
    Test:
    daily backups with comparison of before / after over on all drives and file systems.
    
    David