you dont need to mount a drive to use Rsync, you can rsync over SSH instead.
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 4:21 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:20:47 -0700 > benjamin barber <[email protected]> dijo: > > >regarding rsync, you should be able to rsync to the system over ssh, i > >dont think that nfs would work because of permissions, due to security > >problems inherent in NFS. > > NFS used to work, but when I replaced the drives for volume1 the volume > went away and I had to recreate it. Now I can't get the permissions > right. > > To repeat, here is the line from fstab that used to mount the old volume > (note that it uses nfs): > > 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology /media/jjj/Synology nfs auto,user 0 0 > > Here is my rsync command that is set to run every day at 2am: > > $ rsync -rptog --delete > --exclude-from=/media/jjj/Movies/rsync_exclusions /media/jjj/Movies/ > /media/jjj/Synology > > I noticed that when I use Thunar to 'Browse Network' it mounts it with > smb (apparently). The location bar in Thunar says: > > smb://synology.local/synology/ > > I don't care how it gets mounted, I just want it mounted. > > When I click on it in the Devices list in Thunar I get > > mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting > 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology > > And when I try to mount it from the command line with 'sudo mount -a' I > get exactly the same error message. I assume that clicking on it in > Thunar is doing the same as the mount -a command, hence the same error > message. It seems to me that 'mount -a' tries to mount according to the > line in fstab, so maybe the solution is just to edit that line. In > fact, I commented out the line in fstab, then tried 'sudo mount -a' > again, and the command executed without error. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
