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andyask
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Jul 19, 2012

RSync backup fails when Path field used #19015561

ReadyNAS Duo V2 5.3.5

Am happily backing up my ReadyNAS to an online storage provider via ReadyNAS RSync
http://www.onlinestoragesolution.com (Very cheap by the way!)

All seems to work fine...or so I thought .... I noticed that my four backup jobs are all defaulting to the root folder.

Example:
Share: ANDYTEST
Subfolders: Andytest/Test1, ANDYTEST/Test2

Source: Share ANDYTEST

Destination -
Host: 64.64.131.118
Path: [Left Blank]
Login: andy
Password: password

Backup runs fine, however Test1 and Test2 sit in my RSYNC folder on the server with no ANDYTEST.

ok, so I will insert my destination path and it should be fine right?

Host: 64.64.131.118
Path: andytest
Login: andy
Password: password

But the backup fails!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INCREMENTAL Backup started. Thu Jul 19 10:31:12 GMT 2012

Job: ANDYTEST
Protocol: rsync
Source: [ANDYTEST]/
Destination: 64.64.131.118::andytest

@ERROR: Unknown module 'andytest'
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1534) [sender=3.0.9]

Backup failed. Thu Jul 19 10:31:13 GMT 2012.

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Now if I insert my RSync provider username in the Path field it works fine:

Host: 64.64.131.118
Path: andy
Login: andy
Password: password

...but it still saves only to the root "Rsync" folder on the destination.

Is it me or is there a fault with the path field?

Tried all sorts of combinations such as andy::andytest etc in pathfield, slashes, :'s , no joy.

Any ideas appreciated.

Andy

1 Reply

  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Have you manually created the andytest folder on the destination server? If not, please create it and try the backup jobs again with andytest as the destination path.

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