Best Method for Backup

[Chris Dill]

I have 3 NAS devices:

1. FreeNAS Production Server
2. FreeNAS Home Server
3. Synology NAS

I backup pictures to Synology via a mapped drive and CIFS in Windows. I need to get a copy of the pictures folder onto a FreeNAS server in an intelligent way that is not going to overwork my network and machines and is reliable.

I have been unable to setup Rsync as I believe there are some issues with it on Synology.

I am able to map source and target as CIFS on a Windows box and robocopy /mirror the directories, but this is laborious and I would like to avoid CIFS if possible.

What I have now is an init script on my FreeNAS box mapping the Synology share as NFS. Theoretically, all I need to do at this point is mirror /mnt/synology with /POOL2/Backup-Pictures

Do I use a local rsync for this? If so, can I set that up with the GUI? Should I make a cron script to do this? What is the most efficient way to mirror and also bring over permission, date/time, etc?

 

[m0nkey_]

Should I make a cron script to do this?

If you want to run rsync over NFS, this is how you need to do it.

I wrote a script a while back to do exactly that. You may want to use it, or at least get an idea on how to accomplish the task: http://pastebin.com/RNg7Tngc