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Old 08-19-2006, 06:10 AM   #1
JacekZ
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rsync to an off-the-shelf NAS


Hi,
I currently use rsync to do backups on my desktop from one location to another on the same machine, but I'd like to be able to backup the entire home/user directory to a network attached storage device. This is a consumer device (LaCie d2 Ethernet Disk mini) which I can only set using a browser based interface. It offers smb and ftp, http and some other obscure protocols, but no nfs. I can access it through nautilus and store the user passwords in the keyring, but rather than drag-and-drop backups I'd like a command I can run from an executable text file. So I just click that and off it goes.

This was my best attempt so far (I've changed the username and passwords in the example):
Code:
[user@desktopPC ~]$ rsync -av --delete --rsh=smb /home/user/Desktop/  //workgroup%3Bnasuserpwd@192.168.1.147/archive
building file list ... done
rsync: mkdir "//workgroup%3Bnasuserpwd@192.168.1.147/archive" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(509) [receiver=2.6.8]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) [sender=2.6.8]
[J@boris ~]$
Any suggestions..?
Thanks
Jacek
 
Old 08-20-2006, 08:27 PM   #2
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Your best bet is to mount the NAS drive using smbmount and rsync to the mount point.
 
Old 08-21-2006, 05:27 PM   #3
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Thanks centauricw
This is as far as I get:

Code:
]# mount -t smbfs -o username=nasUser,password=pwd //192.168.1.100/store /nas
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
I was drawing on advice at:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/connec...ge-device.html

I had smb client installed, so I tried installing samba server as well, but got the same result..

Not sure if it is saying 'unknown filesystem' because of my desktop setup or if it is something to do with the NAS.

Regards
Jacek
 
Old 08-21-2006, 08:32 PM   #4
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This probably means that the driver module for the smbfs filesystem is not loaded on your system. The module is probably not loaded by default.
 
  


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