{"id":6494,"date":"2016-09-07T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2017-01-16T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:50:43","slug":"using-rsync-to-keep-folders-in-sync-on-a-synology-diskstation-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/using-rsync-to-keep-folders-in-sync-on-a-synology-diskstation-nas.htm","title":{"rendered":"Using rsync to keep folders in sync on a Synology Diskstation NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/first-weeks-synology-diskstation-nas.htm\">I have\u00a0backups working between my Synology Diskstation NAS and a storage account in Microsoft Azure<\/a> (with over\u00a0half a TB of photos so far\u00a0backed up in the cloud), the next stage is\u00a0to consolidate some more images into the folder that the backup works from.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to remove them from their source (which in this case is the\u00a0copy of my OneDrive data on my home drive) but I do want to archive all of the iPhone\u00a0images I have there to the master photos folder so they are included in the backup.<\/p>\n<p>Reading around the Synology forums suggests that this is not as straightforward as one might think. It appears\u00a0there&#8217;s no easy way to synchronise two folders on the same NAS within the DSM software; but then I stumbled across Zarino Zappia (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zarino\">@zarino<\/a>)&#8217;s post\u00a0about <a href=\"https:\/\/zarino.co.uk\/post\/synology-rsync-backup\/\">a Synology-flavoured rsync backup script<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By following Zarino&#8217;s advice and\u00a0using <code>ssh<\/code> to connect to the box as admin, I was able to achieve what I wanted with the following command:<\/p>\n<p><code>rsync --itemize-changes --archive --progress --verbose --inplace --exclude '*@SynoResource' --exclude '@eaDir' --exclude '*.vsmeta' --exclude '.DS_Store' --exclude 'Thumbs.db' \/volume1\/homes\/mark\/OneDrive\/iPhone\\ Photos\/ \/volume1\/photos\/Digital\\ Photos\\ \\(Master\\)\/Mark\\'s\\ iPhone\/<\/code><\/p>\n<p>(BTW, right click is the way to paste text to the command line in PuTTY!)<\/p>\n<p>Some people on the Synology forums had <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.synology.com\/enu\/viewtopic.php?p=374226&amp;sid=6aff48d543256d5d5515702af36acf35#p374226\">suggested synchronising\u00a0via another computer on the network\u00a0would be fast<\/a>! That sounds strange to me &#8211; logically a copy will\u00a0always be\u00a0faster on a single\u00a0device with no network in between. For reference, it took about 20 minutes to <code>rsync<\/code>\u00a032GB of images\/videos on my on my DS916+.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/putty-rsync-diskstation-2.png?resize=397%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the Error 23 in the screen shots was\u00a0actually a typo in my command (missing space before one of the &#8211;exclude options). <a href=\"http:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/115116\/rsync-error-23-can-i-tell-which-files-were-not-transfered\">I re-ran with &#8211;dry-run<\/a>\u00a0to see which files were not transferred&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/putty-rsync-diskstation-3.png?resize=397%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/putty-rsync-diskstation-4.png?resize=397%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next step will\u00a0be to script this and get it running as a scheduled task but that can wait for another day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now\u00a0I have\u00a0backups working between my Synology Diskstation NAS and a storage account in Microsoft Azure (with over\u00a0half a TB of photos so far\u00a0backed up in the cloud), the next stage is\u00a0to consolidate some more images into the folder that the backup works from. I don&#8217;t want to remove them from their source (which in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/using-rsync-to-keep-folders-in-sync-on-a-synology-diskstation-nas.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using rsync to keep folders in sync on a Synology Diskstation NAS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[3,614],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-linux","tag-synology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Using rsync to keep folders in sync on a Synology Diskstation NAS - 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