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Radjin
Apr 07, 2020Aspirant
rsync permissions update every run.
I use rsync to mirror my media library to my readyNAS 316 from my Mac mini. It's a 14TB library so examples below will only show a few lines. I run the following: rsync -aPvui --delete-durin...
- Apr 07, 2020
StephenB wrote:Try:
rsync -aPvuin --delete-during --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --exclude={'*.Trashes*','*.fsev*','*.DS_*','*.Spotlight*','*Automatically Add*','*Downloads*'} /Volumes/Media\ Drive/ rsync://admin@10.0.1.20:/data/NAS1_Media_Server/Backup/mediarsync://admin@10.0.1.20:/NAS1_Media_Server/Backup/media
Changing to this seems to work:
I am going to let it run and move some date to see what happens.
Thank you.
Radjin
Apr 11, 2020Aspirant
Have you ever accessed the terminal through ssh and ran rsync that way? Looking at posts here it looks like the GUI does not always use the most efficient options.
StephenB
Apr 11, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Radjin wrote:
Have you ever accessed the terminal through ssh and ran rsync that way? Looking at posts here it looks like the GUI does not always use the most efficient options.
Not recently. I use rsync backup jobs to for my NAS to NAS backups. They run on a schedule, which is more convenient (and consistent) then running them manually.
My PC backup jobs use Acronis TrueImage (I use Windows, not MacOS). Desktops are scheduled (by Acronis); I do back up the laptops manually.
Radjin wrote:
Looking at posts here it looks like the GUI does not always use the most efficient options.
What specific options you are thinking of?
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