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NASguru
Dec 10, 2012Apprentice
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...
NASguru
Dec 11, 2012Apprentice
StephenB wrote: Ok, so at the end you had the NAS share as the source, and the USB drive as the destination. You are correct that you don't want the the share to be on the USB drive, you just want the backup to go there.
I'm not seeing the screen shots, just the word image in plain-text. But the USB drive ought to remain mounted. At least, this guide from mdgm (http://www.rnasguide.com/2010/09/23/rsy ... -usb-disk/) doesn't suggest otherwise.
I'm sure there are other posters here who use your approach, maybe they can chime in.
Correct, that's how I had it setup and I've seen that guide from MDGM before.
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