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Backups not working yet status says they are working
I have been using the built-in Rsync feature to back up my ReadyNAS (firmware version 6.10.4) to a directly attached external USB drive for a number of years now. I get nightly notices via email fro...
"Push" and "Pull" with both work with a USB drive and using the LocalHost address for the "remote" system. For a pull, you want the source to be "remote" at the LocalHost address and the destination to be the local share. Note that if you don't want the backup to be in a folder within the target share you need to set the desitnation path to / after you have created the backup job.
Sandshark wrote:
"Push" and "Pull" with both work with a USB drive and using the LocalHost address for the "remote" system. For a pull, you want the source to be "remote" at the LocalHost address and the destination to be the local share. Note that if you don't want the backup to be in a folder within the target share you need to set the desitnation path to / after you have created the backup job.
Right, that is the way it is supposed to work. Push will fail with 6.10.4 and 6.10.5, but pull will work.
"Push" just means the destination is remote, it doesn't require any intelligence in the drive itself. It does require an rsync server on the remote device. With this setup, that just requires rsync to be enabled for the destination share on the USB drive.
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