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rsync + smb usage issue
Hello! Long time!
I have an RN422 on the (recently upgraded from T-180) most recent 6.7.0 firmware. And, ah yes, I am currently resyncing & degraded due to replacing a drive.
I backed up my old iPhone via rsync ages ago. I want to pull the data back to my Mac. So, I added the SMB attribute to it. Now:
the share shows up
the folders within the share show up
there are 16 kbytes used when I do a drag/drop (or du -csh).
I went to my Mac, ran an 'rsync rsync://IP' and got the folder name. Then, I ran an 'rsync -avP rsync://IP/folder /Volumes/destination_folder' and ..
all of my data is copying!
How come SMB shows empty - but rsync works?
Buggggggg time?
I was in the Beta testers group... if that matters.
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If you access with SMB and drill down into the folders, can you see and copy individual files?
I'm wondering if this a file permissions issue.
Sounds like file permission alright.
Btw, "100APPLE" is not a 16KB file, it's a folder.
- The folder is owned by me with my primary group.
I never said it was a file -- I said 16kb used.
otechcomputing wrote:
The folder is owned by me with my primary group.
I never said it was a file -- I said 16kb used.Ok, let's step back. I get that the amount used seems to be wrongly reported.
But
- Are all the files there?
- Do they seem to be intact when you copy them?
- I support storage for a living and am a Linux guy.
The screen grabs are very telling. A recursive list via a SMB share shows no data.
This smells like a bug -- if I had run this test during beta, I'd have reported it.
That being said - I suggest you try it. Speculation is tough when you can't put your hands on it.
Set a share for rsync only.
Rsync some data.
Enable SMB.
Try to see your data via SMB.
You cannot ( at least, I couldn't)
Try via rsync and the data is still there.
I replaced disks this weekend and it won't auto-grow from 2 to 3 TB, so I had to delete my data.
I'll set this back up and do another test -- I can't imagine the results changing.Welp, after a data removal re-creation - the problem no longer persists.
Perhaps, fallout from beta firmware.
Sorry for the goose chase!
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