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RSync over SSH backup
Hi I've just acquired a RN102 for a relative. I'm setting it up so that my pictures are backed up to my relative's NAS (a RN102) over the Internet. I want to do this using RSync over SSH. When co...
ZkiiFreak wrote:
StephenB wrote: Ok, I see. I was going by the name of the backup job rsync: mkdir "/root/data/Backup" failed: No such file or directoryis maybe a hint.
try /data/Backup/Pictures as the destination path. Also, make sure that path already exists.
I think the issue might be the fact that it tries to create the "/root/data/Backup" directory - this is not possible, it should be mapped to the "Backup"-share "/data/Backup" without the "/root". Is this correct to assume?
And that actually kinda answered my own question... I had put in "data/Backup" as destination - that gave the error. Putting in "/data/Backup" - prepending a forward slash - did the trick! Now I've learned a little there :)
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