Incremental Network Drive Backup

[Fragsrus]

At the moment, I am basically using my NAS as a stand-alone torrent box. What I am trying to do is set up incremental backup of just the data I am downloading to a shared drive on the network. I have been looking at the built-in plugins for rsync, crashplan, btsync, and bacula-sd. However, none of these seem to be exactly what I am looking for, unless I am just missing something. I also looked into the ZFS snapshot/replication but from what I have read that seems like it is backup for the entire system. Is there a way to have just my "/mnt/media/downloads" folder incrementally backed up to a network drive location such as "\\RT-N66U\Seagate_External\downloads"? I just can't seem to find anything that covers that specific task.

BuildFreeNAS-9.2.1.6-RELEASE-x64 (ddd1e39)
PlatformAMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor
Memory7907MB

 

[dlavigne]

You could snapshot/replicate just the /mnt/media/downloads dataset, if it's a dataset and the remote side is using ZFS. Alternately, create a tar backup of that directory and scp it to another system. Or, rsync that dataset to another system running rsync.

 

[Fragsrus]

My apologies, I should have mentioned this in my post, the remote drive is a NTFS drive plugged into my router and shared over the network. No way to use any client/server setup or anything that requires software on both ends.

 

[Whattteva]

I hope you're not using that NTFS drive on a Tomato or DD-WRT based consumer-grade router cause the CPU's on those things will make transfer rate shamefully slow (like under 10 MB/s slow).

 

[Fragsrus]

Well, it isn't running Tomato or DD-WRT, but is it an ASUS comsumer-grade router. Yes, the transfer rates are slow. However, I don't really have another option for sharing my NTFS drive without being connected to one of the Windows machines in the house that are constantly on the go.

I am guessing, based on the lack of responses, that either what I am asking is so easy that I shouldn't even be asking about it, or there isn't a way to do exactly what I want it to do.

 

[Fragsrus]

My idea with this setup was to keep the data transfer away from the user machines in a way that would not affect the usage of the user machines. Ideally it would also be an automatic and continual process so that at any given time I can un-mount the remote drive and take with me to use while traveling.