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Cubytus

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Mar 2, 2007
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Hello community,

my goal here is to make a backup of my Virtualbox hard drives. They reside on an external drive that's not always connected. The backup target is a Synology NAS. There's currently one full backup in /VBox-bckp folder on the Synology.

I tested the following command:
Code:
sudo rsync -Haurov --progress --ignore-errors --stats --link-dest=rsync_user@synology.local:/volume1/VBox-bckp/2016-08-29 /Volumes/G670/VirtualBox/ rsync_user@synology.local:/volume1/VBox-bckp/2016-08-28


but was met with this error:
Code:
rsync_user@synology.local's password:
building file list ...
401 files to consider
--link-dest arg does not exist: rsync_user@synology.local:/volume1/VBox-bckp/2016-08-29

I checked, and if the path doesn't exist, rsync is supposed to create it. In my case, I manually created an empty folder names 2016-08-29, but the same error appears.

What is the error?
 

danwestbrook

macrumors regular
Oct 11, 2007
174
61
Surrey, UK
Not sure if this might help, but this is how I backup files on my Mac.. I then just set a crontab to run the rsync.sh when needed

rsync -e ssh -avz --delete /Path/to/folders/to/backup username@IPAddress:/Path/to/folders/to/store/backup
 

Cubytus

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Mar 2, 2007
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I am not sure this produces date-tagged folders on the backup server, does it?
 
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