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Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 18/12/2022 22:11, Dale wrote: |
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>> Wol wrote: |
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>>> On 18/12/2022 18:59, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Since this is local, I just use rsync to do my backups. I did have to |
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>>>> change the options a bit. It seems TrueNAS doesn't like some of the |
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>>>> permissions or something. |
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>>> Are you running the rsync daemon on the NAS? I'm probably teaching |
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>>> grandma to suck eggs, but that massively reduces the need for network |
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>>> traffic. |
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>>> Cheers, |
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>>> Wol |
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>> I mount the NAS on my Gentoo rig. I mount it under /mnt. Then I run |
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>> rsync and copy from the source to the mount point for the NAS. I may |
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>> could go the other way but never thought about doing it that way. Kinda |
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>> sounds backwards to me but I dunno. ;-) |
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> Sounds to me like you're doing it all wrong either way ... |
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> What is *supposed* to happen is that you have the daemon running on |
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> one machine and the client on the other - doesn't matter which. |
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> Then the client tells the daemon what files are to be copied, THE TWO |
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> COMPARE CHECKSUMS, and only the stuff that fails the checksum is |
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> copied. So if you're doing an incremental backup, network usage and |
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> writes are kept to a minimum. |
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> I tell people to an in-place backup if they're running on a snapshot |
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> setup, because again it only writes stuff that has actually changed. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Do you have a link to the proper way to do it? I don't copy to a |
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different machine often so my current method may be the problem. Maybe |
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the way you mention will work much better, even a little better would be |
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nice. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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