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daKlone
Aug 02, 2016Aspirant
RSync Backup Failed...Why?
I'm having trouble getting a backup job to run to completion. I've run it twice so far and it has failed both times, sadly I didn't record the error message for the first one, but this time I got thi...
- Aug 08, 2016
Well, the news is finally good! :smileyhappy:
I ran a scrub on the main NAS (which took ages!) and waited for the backup jobs to run on Sunday night. They all ran (incrementally) to completion and I double-checked the folders using FreeFileSync and they are indeed identical.
I call that a win.
Thanks everyone for thier help, it's much appreciated :smileyhappy:
daKlone
Aug 02, 2016Aspirant
Well, the first news is that the five other, much smaller, backup jobs completed successfully after the failure of the large first job :smileyhappy:
I setup a test job that just includes the folder with the potentially suspect file in it, and that also completed fine. I guess this suggests that there is in fact nothing wrong with it.
I've just kicked off a scrub of the main NAS just in case and will let you know how that goes.
daKlone
Aug 08, 2016Aspirant
Well, the news is finally good! :smileyhappy:
I ran a scrub on the main NAS (which took ages!) and waited for the backup jobs to run on Sunday night. They all ran (incrementally) to completion and I double-checked the folders using FreeFileSync and they are indeed identical.
I call that a win.
Thanks everyone for thier help, it's much appreciated :smileyhappy:
- StephenBAug 09, 2016Guru - Experienced User
I'm glad its resolved.
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