I plan to sync photos from Qnap to Unraid.  How do I enable Unraid as a target?  

One approach would be to mount the Qnap server using the Unassigned Devices plugin.  Than you could run a command like this to copy the files from the Qnap server Back to the Unraid server.

 

rsync -avhPX /mnt/remotes/192.168.1.245_Media/All\ Movies/ /mnt/user/BackupMedia/All\ Movies/

                            ^^^^      Remote server-- Qnap in your case         ^^^       ^^^       Path on local server           ^^^

 

(Rsync does not care. It will either push files to another server or pull them from that other server!   That is why it must be installed on both devices!)) 

  

Thanks Frank1940.  Is that command source first, then target?  Don't want to mess up with rsync

3 minutes ago, jang430 said:

Is that command source first, then target?  Don't want to mess up with rsync

The slightly more proper terminology is the first path is the source and the second path is the destination    (It has always appeared to me that when rsync starts up using a network, that a second instance of it starts on the other end.   The two of them figure out which files--- based on the 'switches ---need to be transferred and then the transfer begins.) 

 

I would recommend using full path names and make sure that the path name is correct by using it in the   ls -al   command as a double check.  Be careful, as I recall, a blank destination uses the present working directory (pwd in Linux terms) of the user running rsync to store the files!  

 

I seem to recall that there is a 'switch' that will let you do a 'dry run'...

Thank you!  I will look at the switches.

54 minutes ago, jang430 said:

Thank you!  I will look at the switches.

-n or --dry-run