Rsync the Openmediavault Way: Sync Everything

[@ukairgunner3267]

I've been online and working in IT since 1994 and just started now with openmediavault. I would have been totally lost without your series of videos - many thanks for all your help 👍👍🍻

[@TechnoDadLife]

Glad to help!

[@dnastudios65]

Many thanks - This helped me work out why I could not pull from an rsync module to my OMV server (I was using a single colon instead of the double-colon). Incidentally at 6:05 you say that the *in the minute field means at the top of the hour... In most Linux implementations, * means every minute (or once a minute, if you prefer). For top of the hour you need to use 0. As a former Unix instructor, I generally recommend not doing things on the hour (because that's what people tend to do) but to start a few minutes after the hour so that not every scheduled activity tries to start at the same time.

[@BrianThomas]

I have to be honest man. You're a pretty Goofy dude, but you're one hell of a guy. Great video. I'm learning a lot from you. Keep up the good work.

[@goncaotico]

You are the best!! I am trying to set up a NAS and a cloud in my home network, but I also wanted a backup. You are making this a thousand times easier!! thank you so much for your videos!

[@TechnoDadLife]

Glad I could help!

[@maxcharacterlimitreache-]

Thanks man! It is now helping me migrating from my synogy to my Omv with a Pull. It would have been a pain doing it by hand since i already did it 1.5 year ago. Now I'll practice it again to have it do a real scheduled backup I'm very new to all this

[@staaldak]

Who else saw tv/tripplexx/getting synchronised at 3:57? Now thats proper NAS usage right there for you!! Dont try to convince us that its got anything to do with Xander Cage...

[@x86FTW]

Op's being extra careful making sure his triplexxx folder is backed up.. lol

[@jimhenry9720]

Great vid! Thanks for the tutorial. BTW that "TripleXX" folder had me dying lmao

[@TechnoDadLife]

Glad you noticed.

[@ccupp2]

Wow... What a coincidence..... I subscribe to and watch all of your videos. Was just today trying to find info about rsync on OMV. Your video got posted at just the right time Thanks so much for the information.

[@ayubzuhair]

Thanks TechnoDadLife, huge fan! Just note that Rsync is NOT a backup solution especially with the delete option ticked. I would recommend Duplicati for backup. Rsync only syncs. If your local file gets corrupted, then the corrupted file gets pushed to your remote server, essentially this is a glorified redundancy method.

[@TechnoDadLife]

Yep, I should change the title.

[@s-a-k-e1814]

Can you tell me more about Duplicati? I'm gonna do a sort of nas ( a raspberry w 2 hdd connected to my router ). On One of two hard disk I have to do a backup ( once a day) of an external HDD of a computer that is connected to the same network. I don't want to sync corrupted files cause they are pretty important. About the second hdd i would do a public folder where everyone can put/read/write everything. Is open media vault a good solution? Sorry for my English.

[@DB_Videos275]

Thanks for the heads up, never did understand how to use Rsync remotely. 🙏🏻

[@jahautak]

Big thanks for this video! I made it work. omv on microserver and push rsync to omv on raspberry pi 4 :) works great! never get this to work without our help!

[@joesquarepants5354]

Thank you very much! You are the best source for well explained OMV videos :)

[@the-papaw]

Thx for all your videos!

[@ben_s73]

Great videos. 3:16 I thinks that's every Saturday morning at 3am since the drop-down is in 24hr clock.

[@RelAxGamingKing77]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate what you do and you helped me out a lot of times!! Keep up!!

[@deanrobertson8669]

This tutorial has been my go to a number of times now. One question I have is how do you create a rsync job that doesn't have a schedule...if for some reason you want to just run manually? Would you need to manually edit "/etc/cron.d/openmediavault-userdefined" or "/var/lib/openmediavault/cron.d/" to remove the schedule? If so, what would need to change or be replaced. In the rsync job, I tried leaving everything as an asterisk "*" but that just makes to job run every minute. Keep up the great work.

[@LukTzeChing]

Hi, i have a question: What if I want to backup a folder/file from a different PC within the local network? As that source file/folder isn't a "shared folder"

[@revealsins2me]

Thanks for sharing this trying it out now, appreciate the videos have a good weekend.

[@TechnoDadLife]

There is a Rsync app for windows.

[@SwiatLinuksa]

Hey. I have 2 stupid ( or not ) question ;) just started omv5 on proxmox as vm for backuping /home from host Ubuntu 20.4. Mounted additional HDD to VM (pass thru)and enabled NFS for my daily computer. And now My"server" doesn't work 24/h, on host I must manually mount NFS share because if server is down system just hangs on share mount.. is there any possibility to auto mount that share on host when he will be available? Umount will be nice see too ;) Second; How to backup with rsync /home from Ubuntu to NAS? Enable ssh server on Ubuntu or make another share and then sync? You show remote rsync but with 2 omv... Not Linux client. Thx!!!

[@TechnoDadLife]

OMV is a linux client, based on Debian. Ubuntu seems to be set up a little differently, have you tried their forums?

[@SwiatLinuksa]

@@TechnoDadLife ill try. Thx!

[@christopherklein3829]

I like your videos. Found you today an i'll have a look to the others. Greetings from germany.

[@falinism]

Can you show how to do it with windows host. I constantly get permission deny. Although I connect via ssh normally in both directions, both from Windows and Linux. SSH on Windows is organized by regular means of the Windows 10 operating system, without additional software.

[@BruceBrannock]

You answered my request you are the man... :-)

[@block_star_8974]

Hello tdl. Nice vids Just wanted to check have you covered the usage unionfs before or any future plans. Thx

[@kristian3690]

Great video

[@prashkd7684]

What's better, usb backup or rsync for backing up on local drive ?

[@GiuseppeTrenta]

thanks for this guide. RSync can be backup remote nas to another remote nas?

[@verticalworldexplorer]

Hi, I would like to know when rsync saves information from one folder to another, just transfers new files or saves everything from the original folder to the backup folder. For example files were accidentally deleted in the original folder and rsync saves only the files present in the folder and when moving to the backup folder the deleted items will be lost. Regards from Portugal

[@diegoloiola7663]

It's so simple it makes you want to laugh

[@BrainHurricanes]

With rsync you can not pull from a windows shared folder ? If possible how to specify like "\\DESKTOP-NAME-AB\Shared" and how to add username+password ?

[@armypc706]

hi super Dad, I do not receive the email of the backups performed, instead I regularly receive all the other monitoring emails! but the RSync mail never arrives! have you ever tried this feature? can you help me?

[@bubblybhai7647]

Is there any way to backup data from other pc's in local network to this NAS Server automatically?

[@ierosgr]

In your push example you went to the 192.168.254.85 server and enabled the servertab and added the module. In your reverse example you didnt enabled the 192.1168.254.29 server tab in order to enable the module there also why? Still it worked...but why? By the way you were explaining this I understood that the server who is going to receive data has to be enabled with the server module.

[@mohammedzaman1937]

is it possible to spin down the secondary HD when it is not rsyncing i.e., 6 days of the week?

[@OriginalAntbox]

Can rsync auto name backups with date done? To create daily backups till disc is full?

[@drwhowhogrub3908]

What do you think is better, to push to another server or to pull from the other server?

[@TechnoDadLife]

I like push, but both work.

[@DB_Videos275]

Can I ask what editing software do you use?

[@TechnoDadLife]

Davinci Resolve free version. I highly recommend it.

[@jadedjade6387]

Wow this is what Im looking for. Cant wait to try it. This is possible to pull from multiple ftp server also? How to do it if pulling from ftp server with anonymous access? Thank You

[@TechnoDadLife]

What you will be doing is syncing the servers. It is not really ftp.

[@NESTORRAMIREZNERSYSTEMS]

@Techno Dad Life I want to do the pull back up from a windows computer, I have the shared "wizard" folder visible from the network, but the rsync task responds that it does not find the "wizard" module, what am I doing wrong?

[@TechnoDadLife]

I haven't had this issue and I didn't find anything googling. Try setting everything up again.

[@NESTORRAMIREZNERSYSTEMS]

@@TechnoDadLife I have programmed the server several times from scratch, you could show how it pulls the files from windows; Will it be necessary to install or run any additional software on windows to be able to back up the windows files in OMV?

[@dmitrii5188]

How to use this and webdav? i have 1tb cloud and want to use it as backup from my NAS. Duplicati not for me - i don't need archives.

[@oflanagans1]

I followed your steps to schedule a job to backup a drive at the root to another usb drive but I get the following message when I click "run" sending incremental file list sent 45 bytes received 12 bytes 114.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 The synchronisation has completed successfully. Done ... Do I need to create another share folder on the source drive and nest all my data under that for this to work properly? Also, the "backup" folder I created in OMV isn't showing in Windows Explorer. Thanks in advance!

[@oflanagans1]

nvm, I'm an idiot and selected the wrong source drive!

[@NielsCG]

4:06 "Push"

[@antoninoleone5386]

Can you explain how can I do a rsync over ssh using port 22? It would be really appreciate

[@joaoajcosta]

Muito Obrigado, segui mas de Truenas para OMV e funcionou muito bem, Muito Obrigado Boa Sorte.

[@jdawgzim]

How do I sync a sub-folder within a sharedfolder to another sub-folder?

[@matthewbennett2844]

Do you have to use another OMV machine or can you just push to a share.

[@TechnoDadLife]

You can push it.

[@Tagkiegrehi]

Спасибо!

[@patwong1999]

hi techno dad I followed your guide but i get this error when i try a pull transfer in rysnc rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.0.69 (192.168.0.69): Connection timed out (110) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(125) [Receiver=3.1.2] any ideas what is wrong, thanks

[@TechnoDadLife]

Why don’t you post screenshots of your configuration to the Openmediavault forums.

[@digitalbots]

so i tried this and Rsync didnt work. Come to find after doing some troubleshooting. I didnt setup the root account. So before you run your first automatic job. Log on as root and change the pwd. if not you will get a error like this one "Jul 19 00:10:01 raspberrypi cron[703]: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required"

[@heusbourgchris]

Thanks, you just saved my day!

[@novaleary4488]

Can you use Rsync on OMV to backup my personal computer to the OMV instance?

[@TechnoDadLife]

Yes

[@novaleary4488]

@@TechnoDadLife I figured out how to get it working, I didn't realize you just needed the setup the server on OpenMediaVault in order to get it working.Thanks!

[@donglobal]

How would I Rync from a folder in a share on OMV to another server like Freenas which is on the same network?

[@TechnoDadLife]

openmediavault.readthedocs.io/en/5.x/administration/services/rsync.html

[@donglobal]

@@TechnoDadLife Thanks for the link, it gave me everything I needed. Keep making those videos Tehcn Dad , they are a great inspiration.

[@lifeisfuneh]

What would be the fastest way to move 3Tb of data from WD My Cloud to OMV hard drive? (only one time copy) Thanks

[@TechnoDadLife]

Rsync

[@lifeisfuneh]

@@TechnoDadLife Yeah, tried that but failed miserably 😏 I'm unclear what I have to do on the WD MyCloud so it can communicate with OMV

[@lifeisfuneh]

@@TechnoDadLife Got this error Please wait, syncing to ... rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.1.45 (192.168.1.45): Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(127) [Receiver=3.1.3]

[@TrevHowsonDemon82]

I'm trying to use rsync from my seedbox to my pi's ext HDD, but I keep getting time out errors, anyone know if a full tutorial for dummies

[@TechnoDadLife]

Post more info to the OMV forums.

[@perkunast9680]

So if server A crashes, when server B backs up, it also crashes.

[@TechnoDadLife]

No.

[@ukaszlis1650]

The pull option work with ftp?

[@migueltacos1610]

Wait, this let's me back up my TripleXX folder???

[@TechnoDadLife]

You're the first person to notice! That was an Easter Egg. Now, I usually put Linux ISOs. folder. :}

[@Purplehurt]

Is it possible to set a shared folder on windows as the source destination?

[@dmbrv]

I did that on an old OMV version by adding a remote share and then u can use the local sync for that. Remote share was an ad-don, no idea if is still around

[@hamsterchat]

@@dmbrv never could make run correctly the remote mount plugin in omv, do you?

[@simonmall2938]

This, like all of your videos, is great. Unfortunately, Rsync continually proves it hates me. Going server to server, I continually get 'Host key verification failed.' using push or pull. I have even created new public keys with the same results. The full error is Please wait, syncing to ... Host key verification failed. rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(235) [sender=3.1.2] The synchronisation has completed successfully. Done ...

[@TechnoDadLife]

Why don't you psot your configuration to the OMV forums and include your error.

[@BuyAtLess]

Does this have anything to do with syncthing?

[@TechnoDadLife]

Seperate but equal.

[@gtx2k842]

Does this retain permissions after syncing?

[@TechnoDadLife]

Depends how you set it up.

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[@hamsterchat]

the dog image seems to pay attention when you speak!