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 :-) :-)
