Rsync disconnects my external USB drive

NASguru wrote:

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.

I backup my entire NAS (c: drive) to a USB using the front button, and then turn-off the USB drive until next backup.

The backup job has the Step 1 Source as "Volume: c"

The Step 2 Destination is "Remote: Rsync Server" with Host of localhost and Path of GOFLEX_EXT2 (this last will be named different for you). I do have "Remove deleted files" checked here also.

Then under Step 4 I have "Schedule Full backup" set as "first time".

I don't understand why you "Set destination as a share folder". This feels like the problem IMO.

In any case my backup button writes only changes to my external USB drive, deleting any files that have been deleted from the NAS.

The only trouble I had with the above was re: doing the first FULL backup, i.e. I already had copied volume: c to the drive by another method, thus needed to tell the Rsync process to treat my initial run as an incremental. Here's what I found that helped me:

http://carlhutzler.com/blog/2009/08/26/ ... he-get-go/