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Rsync Schedule - Sever Limitations?
ReadyNAS OS 6.10.1 Looking at the scheduling options for Rsync backup jobs, it seems as though they are severly limited: I can only set the schedule to run at 5 minutes past each hour. I can only...
DCA-IT wrote: having to waste up to an hour per job each night is not exactly an efficient use of that time.I think there might be some confusion here. You don't need to schedule the jobs separately (and I agree that wouldn't be efficient). You schedule all the jobs to start at the beginning of your nightly backup window. The NAS will queue them, and run them back-to-back.
Sandshark wrote:I don't really see a lot of reasons why a typical user would need more precise timing than hourly nor why one would want to back something up less often than weekly.
This is a NAS being used in a business setting in conjunction with another unit of the same model. One being used as the 'live' storage and the other as DR. As they are serving several SMB shares and data is changing every day. As there's only a certain number of hours to run backups to the DR NAS, time is tight and having to waste up to an hour per job each night is not exactly an efficient use of that time.
If, as Sandshark suggests, make use of a more granular timetable by using the cron scheduler then this seems the way forward.
DCA-IT wrote: having to waste up to an hour per job each night is not exactly an efficient use of that time.
I think there might be some confusion here. You don't need to schedule the jobs separately (and I agree that wouldn't be efficient). You schedule all the jobs to start at the beginning of your nightly backup window. The NAS will queue them, and run them back-to-back.
Ah okay, that's much more effective.
Thanks for the info Stephen.
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