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RSync over SSH failing without logs or details
MacOS Photos requires that you store your photos in their special filesystem. My MacOS doesn't have sufficient disk space to store all my photos and I would like them to be backed up. I created a di...
Can you manually copy some photos to the disk image?
Because the disk image is too big to back up, I am actually copying the photos out of the disk image into a flat directory structure. Pasted below the Backup screens.
When I click Test Connection, It says:
Successfully connected to:10.0.1.90:/Volumes/DavidPhotosBig/
dacarson wrote:
Because the disk image is too big to back up, I am actually copying the photos out of the disk image into a flat directory structure.
Sorry, I was confused on what you are saying. I don't know how to configure an rsync daemon on the mac (setting it up to allow access to the disk image) - I'm not a Mac user. Perhaps someone else here can give you some tips.
Have you tried doing this the other way around - running rsync on the Mac, with the NAS share as the target? That might be easier. I suggest starting with rsync, instead of rsync over ssh. Then you can sort out getting the ssh part to work after you get rsync running.
If the disk image is mounted on the Mac, you could also use something like FreeFileSync.
Thanks for your help.
RSync over SSH was working just fine, so I am not sure why it is now failing, and I don't know how to get ReadyNAS to provide to me a detailed failure description. All I get is that 'it failed'.
If there was a location on the ReadyNAS where I could log in and see a full transcript of the Backup job, that would be helpful. Or even if there was a way to get the command line that the ReadyNAS runs, I could try running it manually myself from the console on the ReadyNAS I could see where it failed.I have not tried it the other way, ie run the job on the Mac as I don't have a good way to schedule jobs on the mac. Let me look into FreeFileSync. (Though it is unfortunate that the tools provided by ReadyNAS that I paid for as part of my ReadyNAS don't work)
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