Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[David Rosenbaum]

Need link

Dave

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 1:52 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

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