RSync over SSH failing without logs or details

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dacarson wrote:

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'.

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So this exact scenario was working before (using an rsync-over-ssh backup job to pull files from a remote MacOS disk image)?

Are you seeing any photos in the destination share?

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dacarson wrote:

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

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This isn't as much information as there could be here. Backups are run using a Netgear backup utility (/frontview/bin/fvbackup).  As far as I can tell, that generates the actual backup command(s) on the fly.  There are some logs in /var/log/frontview/backup/, but they don't have the info you are looking for.  journalctl --no-pager | grep -i rsync might give you a little info - but in my experience, not a whole lot.

You might be able to catch the command line from ssh using something like ps -aux | grep -i rsync if you can enter this while the backup job is running.

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dacarson wrote:

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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FWIW, I am thinking the actual problem is on the mac side.  The NAS can connect to the rsync daemon there, but that doesn't mean that the rsync daemon is configured to access the files in the disk image. But as I said earlier, I'm not a mac user.