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Mount NAS to B3 for use with rsync

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dumbo
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Mount NAS to B3 for use with rsync

Post by dumbo »

Hi,

I wonder how I'm doing to mount my Western Digital NAS to my B3, the disk are connected to same network as my B3? I should use my WD NAS as backup disk, so I should use rsync or similar for the backup job.

Regards,
Micke
Cheeseboy
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Joined: 08 Apr 2007, 12:16

Re: Mount NAS to B3 for use with rsync

Post by Cheeseboy »

Hi Micke,

Please let us know what network sharing protocols your NAS is capable of.
Has it got a SSH daemon? Then you don't need to mount anything...

There is a wiki article about using rsync.net:
http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/T ... _rsync.net
Not sure if you are comfortable with storing stuff off-site, or if the space is enough.
Please give us some details...

Best regards,

Cheeseboy
RandomUsername
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Re: Mount NAS to B3 for use with rsync

Post by RandomUsername »

I don't know about using rsync over NFS but over Samba it has to copy the entire file every time so you lose one of the main benefits of rsync, i.e. only having to copy diffs.

SSH is definitely the way to go if you can.
Cheeseboy
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Re: Mount NAS to B3 for use with rsync

Post by Cheeseboy »

rsync over SSH works really well, incremental backups have the magic to not only copy changed files, but only the bits that are changed..

EDIT:
Sorry for reiterating exactly what randomusername said there, I misread NFS as SSH.
RandomUsername
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Re: Mount NAS to B3 for use with rsync

Post by RandomUsername »

Cheeseboy wrote:EDIT:
Sorry for reiterating exactly what randomusername said there, I misread NFS as SSH.
Apology accepted :)
dumbo
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Re: Mount NAS to B3 for use with rsync

Post by dumbo »

Cheeseboy wrote:Hi Micke,

Please let us know what network sharing protocols your NAS is capable of.
Has it got a SSH daemon? Then you don't need to mount anything...

There is a wiki article about using rsync.net:
http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/T ... _rsync.net
Not sure if you are comfortable with storing stuff off-site, or if the space is enough.
Please give us some details...

Best regards,

Cheeseboy
Yes, I think I have the possibility to use SSH. I will try it and will come back if it doesn't work.

Thanks!
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