Badboy Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Hi Guys, I would like to keep an extra backup of my Plex media folders backed up to a Qnap. It is just sitting there doing nothing. I have to get them over there, so I was going to FTP them. As far as keeping the media in sync between the servers, what’s the best option? I don’t want to have to keep moving the entire folders all the time because they are fairly large. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thanks Quote Link to comment
Delarius Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I think in this instance, depending on how your QNAP device works - the way I'd approach it is - see if you can't get your QNAP to share (via NFS/cifs/however) to your unRAID server. Then you can use rsync to periodically 'synchronize' your directories. I don't do this but I believe you can add a 'network share' in the unRaid GUI. You could definitely do this a few different ways - including rsync via ssh but it's often easier if the storage is presented locally. rsync command would be something like: rsync -avz /mnt/user/Movies /mnt/wherever/you/mount/the/network/share/Movies You can test it via --dry-run as in: rsync -avz --dry-run /mnt/user/Movies /mnt/wherever/you/mount/the/network/share/Movies Quote Link to comment
Badboy Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 19 hours ago, Delarius said: I think in this instance, depending on how your QNAP device works - the way I'd approach it is - see if you can't get your QNAP to share (via NFS/cifs/however) to your unRAID server. Then you can use rsync to periodically 'synchronize' your directories. I don't do this but I believe you can add a 'network share' in the unRaid GUI. You could definitely do this a few different ways - including rsync via ssh but it's often easier if the storage is presented locally. rsync command would be something like: rsync -avz /mnt/user/Movies /mnt/wherever/you/mount/the/network/share/Movies You can test it via --dry-run as in: rsync -avz --dry-run /mnt/user/Movies /mnt/wherever/you/mount/the/network/share/Movies Hi Delarius, Thanks for the input much appreciated. I might try one of those ideas The way I have done it right now. I'm in the process of copying the folders over to the Qnap that I want to sync with unraid on a regular basis. I'm using the Krusader docker and FileZilla. It looks like I can easily run a sync with Krusader whenever I want. Don't know if it will do it automatically or how well it will sync. I just started using it so I'm not real familiar with it yet. Looks like a good app. Ideally it would be good at some point if the process was automated. Not a big deal to start something manually every 3 0r 4 days. Better then what I had. The Qnap can now get a little use. LOL. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment
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