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Rsync to Freenas
Afternoon all
Ive been trying for 24 hrs to get rsync copying my Duo to a freenas box I have installed, however nothing seems to by copying.
I have a duo with raidar 4.1.6
I have turned the Rsync service on in standard file protocols
I have gone to share listing and checked that rsync is selected for the share im backing up, ive then clicked on the icon and where is talks of usernames and says that the username has not got to be a readynas user, I have but the admin and password for the freenas server as this is where the readynas will access to backup
I have gone to backup and created a new backup job
Step 1
I have for a test said to backup a share and chosen the share name from the dropdown, (it has about 60MB data in)
Step2
I have chosen a remote sync server
Host: \\freenas
Path: data\backups\readynas\
From a windows 7 box I can access that path \\freenas\Data\Backups\ReadyNAS no problems.
For login I have put root and put the roots password (this is a user on the freenas box)
I click test connection and I get a message saying successfully connected to \\freenas
So I know all of this is working so far.
I have for a test put the job to run daily over night between 2am and 4pm as im at work during the day and it didn't do anything.
Ive then made changes so that the job runs over the space of an hour so that I can watch it start and finnish as its only a few mb of data, the job says its started, but when the finnish time passes it keeps on supposedly running, but never stops. I have checked the logs and theres never any data in the log. To stop the running job I click stop, and it says stopping, but the status never changes from stopping, and then I have to reboot the readynas to get it to be back to a non running state.
No data ever gets backed up. When the job is running there is no activity on the readynas or the freenas
Is anyone able to offer some ideas as to why my backups are not running as I would hope?
Many thanks
Sput
Ive been trying for 24 hrs to get rsync copying my Duo to a freenas box I have installed, however nothing seems to by copying.
I have a duo with raidar 4.1.6
I have turned the Rsync service on in standard file protocols
I have gone to share listing and checked that rsync is selected for the share im backing up, ive then clicked on the icon and where is talks of usernames and says that the username has not got to be a readynas user, I have but the admin and password for the freenas server as this is where the readynas will access to backup
I have gone to backup and created a new backup job
Step 1
I have for a test said to backup a share and chosen the share name from the dropdown, (it has about 60MB data in)
Step2
I have chosen a remote sync server
Host: \\freenas
Path: data\backups\readynas\
From a windows 7 box I can access that path \\freenas\Data\Backups\ReadyNAS no problems.
For login I have put root and put the roots password (this is a user on the freenas box)
I click test connection and I get a message saying successfully connected to \\freenas
So I know all of this is working so far.
I have for a test put the job to run daily over night between 2am and 4pm as im at work during the day and it didn't do anything.
Ive then made changes so that the job runs over the space of an hour so that I can watch it start and finnish as its only a few mb of data, the job says its started, but when the finnish time passes it keeps on supposedly running, but never stops. I have checked the logs and theres never any data in the log. To stop the running job I click stop, and it says stopping, but the status never changes from stopping, and then I have to reboot the readynas to get it to be back to a non running state.
No data ever gets backed up. When the job is running there is no activity on the readynas or the freenas
Is anyone able to offer some ideas as to why my backups are not running as I would hope?
Many thanks
Sput
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- The freenas is configured as an rsync server?
You can manually run the backup job by pressing the go button in the backup jobs list. That's probably a better way to get it working.
If you click on the help button when editing/creating a frontview backup job it provides you some useful examples.
You shouldn't put \\ before the host name for rsync backup jobs.
Also, the path name is case sensitive - I note that your windows access uses Data\Backups\ReadyNAS, but your path name is all lower case. In addition your slashes are backwards. - Hi Stephen
I tried without the \\ before freenas and with data/backups/readynas/ and when I did test connection, I get connection failed, reverted to \\freenas and data/backups/readynas/ and connection succeeded.
On the freenas I have turned on the rsync service
I have also made a rsync module for the readynas given it read and write access, set it to use the root user and in the allow hosts I have put the readnas unc name
If I cancel a running job, to get the system status to change from "in progress" on the readynas I have been having to reboot. The job that is currently running is due to stop in 5 minutes, from the time settings I have given the job in frontview, I shall see if its staus changes, I expect that I shall have to reboot the readynas duo to get it to cancel/stop.
Reagrds
Sput - The stop time in frontview might not mean what you think. It is the end of the start window, not the time the backup job will end.
\\host is not needed on my duo (host works fine). None of my paths need slashes, so I can't test that.
Since you have rsync enabled for the shares, you can also try configuring the freenas to "pull" the data on its own. Frontview backup is then not involved (http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Rsync_Tasks). Perhaps worth a try. - I shall give that a go, and make freenas pull rather then readynas push. Do I need to do anything on the readynas other then enable rsync on the shares to make it a client. The freenas rsync setup looked a little scaryier then the readynas which is why I was trying to push with readynas rather then pull with freenas. I shall report back in due course
- Stephen,
Do you rsync to another readynas or to a different system? I made a rsync job on the freenas to pull the data but it was having problems connecting, I feel because the freenas rsync has much more configurable fields then the readynas does. - I rsync to other ReadyNAS.
There could be something wrong in the freenas module you configured - maybe you should also post this in the freenas forum?
You could also try NFS or even "Windows" options in Frontview backup - that eliminates the need for rsync configuration. - How do you mean NFT or Windows options? I have started another job via front view, but yes, im thinking I should also post to freenas as it might be a problem with the freenas box.
- Create a frontview backup job with the destination set to "Remote Windows/NAS (Timestamp)" or "Remote NFS Server".
The path already works with Windows, so the first option will likely work. If the freenas destination is also configured to use NFS, then you could use the second option as well. - Right,
I made a Remote Windows / NAS backup job to backup a users share (Hannah)
Host: freenas
Path Data/Backups/ReadyNAS
user root and its password
ran job
below is the job log
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FULL Backup started. Fri Jan 3 20:20:30 WET 2014
Job: 002
Protocol: cifs
Source: [Hannah]/
Destination: //freenas/Data/Backups/ReadyNAS
Backup finished. Fri Jan 3 20:20:32 WET 2014
However, no data has been transferred, im assuming this is some progress? - Was this a private (e.g. home) share?
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