Hi,

 

I'm still new to unRaid, but I'm loving it, especially the very helpful forum.

 

There's one thing I'm trying to figure out, but it doesn't seem obvious:

 

I have about 1TB of movies on a Synology DiskStation DS210j. I'd like to rsync it to "disk2" on my unraid server for the initial transfer, and from then on do it the other way around (rsync from unRaid to DS210 and keep the files in sync). The DS210 has a webgui setup wizard, supports rsync, but it doesn't seem to "see" my unraid tower - but maybe it is something else entirely.

 

Does anyone have any experience synchronizing a Synology box and unraid, or is it more trouble than it's worth?

Hi,

 

I'm still new to unRaid, but I'm loving it, especially the very helpful forum.

 

There's one thing I'm trying to figure out, but it doesn't seem obvious:

 

I have about 1TB of movies on a Synology DiskStation DS210j. I'd like to rsync it to "disk2" on my unraid server for the initial transfer, and from then on do it the other way around (rsync from unRaid to DS210 and keep the files in sync). The DS210 has a webgui setup wizard, supports rsync, but it doesn't seem to "see" my unraid tower - but maybe it is something else entirely.

 

Does anyone have any experience synchronizing a Synology box and unraid, or is it more trouble than it's worth?

Does the rsync on the DiskStation expect the rsync daemon to be running on the unRAID server?  if so, you need to set up a configuration file for it and start it.

 

I use this file on one of my servers

cat /boot/config/rsyncd.conf

uid             = root

gid             = root

use chroot      = no

max connections = 4

pid file        = /var/run/rsyncd.pid

timeout         = 600

log file        = /var/log/rsyncd.log

 

[mnt]

   path = /mnt

   comment = /mnt files

   read only = FALSE

 

I've attached a copy of that file to this post.  I put it on the flash drive in the config folder.

 

I start the daemon process running with this command:

rsync  --daemon  --config=/boot/config/rsyncd.conf

 

It allows me to write to anything under  /mnt

 

On the server I'm writing from (tower) I then use commands like this to write to the second server (tower2):

cd /mnt

rsync -avrH  user/Pictures tower2::mnt/user/

rsync -avrH  user/Movies tower2::mnt/user/

 

These copy my Movies and Pictures user-shares from the one server to the other.

 

Your need will be different, but this might give you a few ideas.

 

You could possibly do it with one rsync command like this and get everything in the user-shares:

cd /mnt

rsync -avrH  user/ tower2::mnt/

 

Joe L.

rsyncd.conf

cool, thanks a lot, I'll play around with it!

Yes I think the Synology expects the rysnc daemon to be running.