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Rsync disconnects my external USB drive
I read through a number of posts on here and the benefits of Rsync keeping mirror copies without having to perform entire backups. That's a good thing if you have terabytes of data to backup and ther...
StephenB wrote:
NASguru wrote: So as suggested on a number of posts, I initially ran a standard backup job using Frontview so I could get my full backup for each share to my external USB drive. I then changed it to use Rsync where my source was the NAS and path was the external USB path/folder. The destination was changed to be the NAS local share.
Sure, I grabbed this outline from another post on the process of using Rsync. I've seen simiar steps in other posts but as I said previoulsy they are mostly written for NAS to NAS using Rsync.
1, Enable Rsync in Servers/Standart Files Protocals
2, Open share list, enable Read/Write in Rsync of USB Share.
3, Add a backup job, set source as remote rsync, input your NAS's IP in Host and Path is USB folder name.
4, Set destination as a share folder.
In step 3 above, I set the path to be the local NAS share instead of the USB folder name and in step 4 above I set the destination to be the USB share folder instead of being the NAS share. I don't want the USB share to be treated as the server since it's not where I make my changes to the files. I add/delete files off the NAS which is MUCH quicker than transfer rates to and from a USB drive attached to the NAS and hence my preference.
So bottom line, should my USB drive be disconnected using the settings I have listed in my screen shot?
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