[Solved] How to backup correctly to external drive?

[Rhodius]

I've been reading the topics here, paying particular attention to the following thread.

Correct way to move files between shares? - General Support - Unraid

 

I'm using cron job and rclone to schedule backups to an external USB drive. This combination has been working beautifully. But I've only used it for a particular folder that doesn't span disk, so with the external at /mnt/disks/externalX, the source is at /mnt/diskX/folderX, I'm not running into issues copying user shares to disks and vice versa.

 

The current command I use is (I know I'm missing the delete back up folder there as part of the command, will be adding it soon)

rclone sync -v /mnt/diskX/FolderX /mnt/disks/externalX/FolderX

 

Now I'm about to add backing up folders that span multiple disks, how should I do this? The easiest way I can think of is 

rclone sync -v /mnt/user/FolderY /mnt/disks/externalX/FolderY

 

Am I running into issues especially once I added the delete back up folder command (the one that moves deleted files and folder into a separate folder) since I'm mixing user shares and disks here? Unfortunately the external drive is at /mnt/disks/. 

 

Folks that have more experience with Unraid/Linux can help, please?

 

Thanks folks. 

Edited December 4, 2020 by Rhodius

[Rhodius]

Before anyone asks, the reason I'm using rclone above, I'm already using that for backing up to cloud, so it's easier to just use the same tool.

[itimpi]

What you want should work fine.    The potential problem only arises when you mix /mnt/user and /mnt/disk (without an ‘s’) or /mnt/cache type paths in the same command.   When using unassigned drives you are fine.

[Rhodius]

Thanks, will do as you said.