rsync trailing slash vs not to trailing slash

[Oko]

I am using rsync to backup one of my FreeNAS 9.2.1.9 boxes due to the frequent crashes of the target machine caused by
ZFS replication. It turns out that crashes are caused by faulty logic of the SAS back plane but that is another story.

Long story short. I have done initial rsync from FreeNAS box onto the remote host and I would like to use GUI now to set up rsync cron jobs. Little that I experimented with FreeNAS rsync module it seems to me that the module is not using trailing slash which is equivalent to

Code:

rsync /mnt/storage/Documents rsync://nobody@remotehost:873/ftp 

where ftp is defined in ryncd.conf

Code:

uid = nobody
gid = nobody
use chroot = no
max connections = 4
syslog facility = local5
[ftp]
        path = /data/Documents
        read only = no
        list = yes
        comment = data

which in turn created another Documents directory so I ended up with

Code:

/backups/Documents/Documents

I actually would like to do

Code:

rsync /mnt/storage/Documents/ rsync://nobody@remotehost:873/ftp 

which will leave me with

Code:

/backups/Documents

only.

 

[willnx]

Dumb question, but why can't you define the path within the rsync config to be '/data'? Then when you run your rsync job, it'll make '/backups/Documents'.

 

[Oko]

Dumb question, but why can't you define the path within the rsync config to be '/data'? Then when you run your rsync job, it'll make '/backups/Documents'.

Because I have

/data/Documents

and I have another data set

/data/misc

and I am using option --delete to remove the files which don't exist on the machine which I am trying to backup.

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to find a satisfactory solution?

 

[Oko]

Were you able to find a satisfactory solution?

Nope.