Comments on: Nightly volume backup script for dns-323 soho NAS (rsync+cron)

By: gaucho

gaucho — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:25:14 +0000

ok i made some progess on my own. #2 and #3 resolved. ran the script. it worked. however when i delete a file from a source directory, the rsynch does NOT delete it from the backup directors. this is a problem since as files are added and deleted the backup will be a cummulative backup of every file on the machine and be much bigger then the source. hardly a “synch” of the files. am i doing something wrong?

By: gaucho

gaucho — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:28:59 +0000

hi. i am trying to implement the recommendations on this thread but am totally new to UNIX/LINUX.
got as far as setting ssh to the DNS-323 but have some basic questions like:
1) why are there 4 drives in the mnt directory as the DNS-323 only has two? they are HD_a2, HD_a4, HD_b2 and HD_b4.
2) I got stuck trying to copy the rsynch script to the correct folder. no clue how to copy files from my “mac os” over to UNIX in the DNS-323.
3) why can’t a cd to any of the folders on the drives in UNIX?
4) what does the .localized suffix mean?

sorry for what must seem like silly questions but i am determined to set up cron/rsynch on this thing.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:20:29 +0000

Hey there, I used your script and love all the other info on your page. I used it pretty much exclusively while setting up my DNS-323.

I started this with very limited unix/linux knowledge, but slowly got up to speed and started to edit some of the scripts.

The question I have is in regards to the rbackup script. I have Volume 1 backing up new data to Volume 2. I often delete movies I’ve watched, or find a file that’s corrupt and delete it from Volume 1, but it still remains on Volume 2. Outside of deleting everything on Volume 2 and copying everything on Volume 1, do you have any recommendations for removing files on Volume 2 that don’t appear on Volume 1? I figured there’s a way to check if files on Volume 2 exist on Volume 1, and if they don’t, then delete them.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Rob

By: gho

gho — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:02:43 +0000

gt, maybe you can try: SOURCEDIRS="/mnt/HD_a2/iTunes?Music" if that's the only directory you're backing up. where i have: SOURCEROOT="/mnt/HD_a2" SOURCEDIRS="\ $SOURCEROOT/ffp \ $SOURCEROOT/Files \ $SOURCEROOT/Pictures \ $SOURCEROOT/My?Music \ $SOURCEROOT/Videos \ " and this works for me. - gho

By: GT

GT — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:31:16 +0000

Thanks for the great script. The only issue I am having is adding SOURCEDIRS where I have spaces in the directory names (E.g. iTunes Music). I have tried using additional quotation marks (”) and also using backslashes before each space (\) where there is a space, but the script does not seem to recognize these. I have added below everything that I have tried for one of the Source directories I want to back up.

Attempt #1: SOURCEDIRS= “/mnt/HD_a2/iTunes Music \”

Attempt #2: SOURCEDIRS= “/mnt/HD_a2/”iTunes Music” \”

Attempt #3: SOURCEDIRS= “/mnt/HD_a2/iTunes\ Music \”

Attempt #4: SOURCEDIRS= “/mnt/HD_a2/iTunes\\\ Music \”

Attempt #5: SOURCEDIRS= “/mnt/HD_a2/’iTunes Music’ \”

Attempt #6: SOURCEDIRS= “/mnt/HD_a2/’iTunes\ Music’ \”

After running ./rbackup.sh each of the above attempts, I get:

: No such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

By: Sergey Kiselev

Sergey Kiselev — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:38:31 +0000

Thanks a lot for your help! Your instructions actually helps us! Excellent work!!! 8)))

By: kp

kp — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:39:45 +0000

The manual rsync worked like a charm but I think I’m running into the same problem as Don on getting the editcron.sh to run. I can’t get it to set up the cron job.

I verified the editcron.sh file is there with the right ownership (root:root) and has the execute permissions. However when I look at the ffp.log it’s giving the error:

“/ffp/etc/rc: line 45: /ffp/start/editcron.sh: not found”

The file is there but I must have some simple permissions problem in the setup. I can’t even seem to get the editcron.sh to run for the test. Suggestions?

Thanks.

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By: Don

Don — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:03:13 +0000

Excellent how-to.

I modified the script slightly. I wanted the date shown before the backup so I added the following before the ‘for’ loop

TODAY=`date`
echo $TODAY >> $LOG

Also I noticed that you check if the destination exists but the script, as posted, doesn’t abort if the directory isn’t there. I added an “exit 1″ after error message is echoed.

And finally you have a variable for an exclude file but no option in the rsync to use it. I changed the opts line to:

OPTS=”-va –exclude-from=$EXCLUDES”

Thanks!!!

By: Louis

Louis — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:30:20 +0000

Thanks for the tuto. I really appreciate it. The only problem I have is that for an unknown reason, my script work well when I run it manually (./editcron.sh) but it doesn’t run at startup. Do I need to do something else than put it in /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/start? Thank you again!