Rsync disconnects my external USB drive

maxblack wrote:

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/

Unfortunately for me, backing up the whole volume isn't an option at this time since my external USB drive doesn't have enough capacity. As for my destination, it's a folder on the USB drive named with the same path/folder as the one on the NAS. I probably shouldn't have said share as that can easily be confused with the folders created under the NAS quotas. That aside, I will try setting the rsync up under step 2 while the source is simply the share on the local NAS. That may give a different result. It's funny you should mention the first FULL backup. I did my first full backup using the built in copy command for the default backup jobs for each folder and then switch to Rsync. However, I fell back to the default method for backup jobs since my NAS was disconnecting my external USB drive while using Rsync or so I thought. On Monday my schedule ran for the backup jobs on 3 folders that I have setup and wouldn't you know it the job was backing up the whole folder again instead of doing an incremental move. As if that wasn't enough, my external USB drive was again disconnected after the first job completed which of course failed the other two jobs that were already in progress. So at this point, I'm not convinced it's a Rsync problem now. I should mention my external USB Wester Digital drive is one of those Green Desktop versions so it could be a firmware thing as well?

BTW, thanks for that link. I'll force the incremental on the next go around so I don't have to cancel or sit through it again. I'm also going to setup a small test folder/share instead of hashing this out with 500 GB worth of data. :D