It's been two years I've asking for this feature with no real feedback from Asustor.
I've been a rsync.net user for over a decade, and always used their services for backup. They provide you with a simple restricted shell, where you can sync files with RSYNC. Simple and effective.
Well, my Asustor NAS (5304T) won't do a simple rsync over SSH. The rsync backup that's currently in ADM is completely useless, as it seems to require an external SSH tunnel (and the UI is very, very confusing). Other NAS brands have done it correctly for quite some time, like Sinology.
I DID manage to get someone from Asustor to take a look into it, and even provided a test rsync.net account for them. Guess what? The employee left the company, and ever since my requests on it have been ignored. It's really a shame that I still need to go to my PC every day and run my backup scripts manually, when I have a NAS turned on 24/7.
Will we ever see this fixed?
Proper RSYNC support
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Re: Proper RSYNC support
Frankly I don't use the provided rsync UI because it lacks options like filters.
Also one quick comparison between the built-in and mainstream I already know which to choose for my setup:
So I use rsync in chroot instead. Think you're better off doing this in docker, LXC or chroot. Alpine containers would be great for minimalist. Just bind the paths to the container and configure your rsync and cron the way you preferred.
Also one quick comparison between the built-in and mainstream I already know which to choose for my setup:
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root@Nimbustor4:~# rsync --version
rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2018 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
no socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, prealloc
rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
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root@Nimbustor4:~# debian rsync --version
rsync version 3.2.3 protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2020 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: https://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
socketpairs, hardlinks, hardlink-specials, symlinks, IPv6, atimes,
batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, optional protect-args, iconv,
symtimes, prealloc, stop-at, no crtimes
Optimizations:
SIMD, asm, openssl-crypto
Checksum list:
xxh128 xxh3 xxh64 (xxhash) md5 md4 none
Compress list:
zstd lz4 zlibx zlib none
rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
AS5304T - 16GB DDR4 - ADM-OS modded on 2GB RAM
Internal:
- 4x10TB Toshiba RAID10 Ext4-Journal=Off
External 5 Bay USB3:
- 4x2TB Seagate modded RAID0 Btrfs-Compression
- 480GB Intel SSD for modded dm-cache (initramfs auto update patch) and Apps
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Internal:
- 4x10TB Toshiba RAID10 Ext4-Journal=Off
External 5 Bay USB3:
- 4x2TB Seagate modded RAID0 Btrfs-Compression
- 480GB Intel SSD for modded dm-cache (initramfs auto update patch) and Apps
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