Rsync to a Remote NAS

[josephj at main.nc.us]

Another option (that I'm looking into,but haven't tried) is to do rsync
over ftp. Many NASs support ftp, so that may work for you.

See:
http://serverfault.com/questions/24622/how-to-use-rsync-over-ftp
http://fixunix.com/debian/129298-website-backups-using-rsync-via-ftp.html

Joe

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> Using either rsync over ssh or rsyncd which is what I said in my
> original reply.  But unfortunately few NAS appliances support those.
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> On 04/11/12 18:04, Chris Arnold wrote:
>> So what would plan A be?
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Korb"
>> <kmk at sanitarium.net> To: rsync at lists.samba.org Sent: Wednesday,
>> April 11, 2012 5:39:31 PM Subject: Re: Rsync to a Remote NAS
>>
>> You mean mount -t cifs ;)
>>
>> This is a good plan B if the remote system can't support rsyncd or
>> rsync over ssh.  But unfortunately it would mean running with
>> --whole-file
>>
>> On 04/11/12 17:36, Greg Deback (rsync) wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> I don't think rsync natively supports samba shared volumes. You
>>> should probably start by mounting your shared volume, using
>>> mount -t smbfs, then sync. See
>>> http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/backup.html
>>
>>> Greg
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Chris Arnold
>>> <carnold at electrichendrix.com
>>> <mailto:carnold at electrichendrix.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Forgive me if this has been addressed here before. We have a
>>> remote office that we need to backup to our NAS. We have a site
>>> to site certificate VPN. The remote site has over 51gb that needs
>>> to be backed up to our NAS over that VPN. I have tried this
>>> command: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress
>>> --recursive --times --perms --links --delete /Share/* /
>>> smb://192.168.123.6/Backup/EdensLandCorp
>>> <http://192.168.123.6/Backup/EdensLandCorp>
>>
>>> and it just sits there and appears to do nothing. Does rsync
>>> make a tarball first and then put it where it is told to put it
>>> or does it just copy the files/folders over? Maybe it is the
>>> smb://xx.xx.xx.xx/whatever that is breaking it......the bottom
>>> line is i need to copy/rsync a directory to a remote server
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