Hey guys I have bought myself an Hawking HNA1 Network Storage Caddie and wacked an 250GB HDD in it. To my suprise the Hawking device formats the HDD in ext3 which is good. I can access the NAS via SAMBA or FTP. I would like to set up a backup solution where only new or changed files get copied onto the NAS device. When I delete files from my home directory they should be deleted from the NAS too. It should be an exact replica of my local home folder. Any suggestions? Thankies
Rsync wasn't working properly with the NAS at first. It completed ignored what files had been changed and just backed up everything. Then I noticed the "Windows Compatibility" option in Grsync :doh: Works like a treat now
I use rsync at home to synchronise music on 3 computers, one of which is a server. It's a great tool, it only sends deltas of files, not even full ones. My only gripe with it is that it doesn't recognise moved files and transfers them anyway.
If you want to do a two-way sync instead of just a one-way sync, or if you want to sync non-UNIX systems, look at Unison File Synchronizer.
