I completed setting up my UnRaid server - I built one that should last me awhile  

 

I would like some suggestions on the best way to sync my all my files on my OMV server over to the new UnRaid server.  I looked into Syncthing - but am having issues getting it to recognize the shares on each server.  Any thoughts or resources that I can be pointed to would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you in advance

 

George

 

Rsync is typically a good option for that.

I have looked at that - but have not been able to get it working on both sides - will keep at it to try to get it working.  thanks

If you have one or more SMB share, you can just mount them with UD and user rsync with that.

I ended up just doing it with BeyondCompare from my pc - I needed it done at that time - - will look into getting rsync working - thanks

I sync two shares-- one on each of my Unraid servers- using rsync.  This is the command line (I store it in a text file on my desktop) that I use:

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

 

Note that the full path is required!

 

I have setup a 'SMB Share' on one of my servers using the Unassigned Devices plugin that mounts the share on the other server to the first server.  The command is run in the GUI terminal on the first server.  One of the requirements of rsync to be able to run over a network is that the rsync program has to be installed on both computers. (This was not a  problem for me as rsync is included in the Unraid distribution.  If it not installed in your second computer, you will have to figure out how to install it there.) 

 

BTW, one of the nice things about rsync is that it can be run from either end.  In the example I am sharing, the source is remote and the backup is local.  It could be run from other end.  In that case, the source would be local and backup would be remote.  

Edited May 17, 20251 yr by Frank1940