

Auto sync selected dirs, up and down (ie: if there is a new change on either system it gets uploaded or downloaded to the other system). I seem to have no problems with files with names having Unicode characters outside the ASCII range. Want: Auto weekly backup of selected dirs with versions and delete old versions past a set time. So I guess not many people here can try to analyse what happened. But you posted nothing of those “rejected” messages or whatever told you that some files were not copied.

I confirmed that many (if not all) were rejected because their names contained special characters such as “:” or “?”. In fact w e have only your saying "Unfortunately, there were about fifty files and/or folders that were not transferred. grsync lets you set up a given backup job (source directory, target directory, filters, rules, etc.), then save it as a 'Session,' so that you can run that same session in the future by calling it from a drop-down menu, rather than having to re-enter all the directories, filters, etc.

Cron is installed and configured on all Debian -based systems like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, KDE Neon, etc. The most popular and simplest way to do that is to use the cron job scheduler. It describes what needs to be done on the Synolgoy device, as well a using rsync on Linux hosts, but if you prefer a GUI then Grsync is your friend. Rsync is installed on all popular Linux systems and you can easily configure it to run on schedule in the background. If you want a GUI tool for synchronizing files, consider Grsyncįor the NAS, make sure that SSH is enabled… However, on looking at the article (many thanks for the tip!), I am wondering if the configuration reported there will give me a similar solution. (Those synchronised files are automatically backed up to a USB volume on the NAS at regular intervals.) In other words, it is a local cloud, that requires an app on each client and the NAS, I once had a nightmare scenario play out in a. Still, you’d be amazed at how many users, both personal and professional, don’t bother to do so. This feature gives me access to all files I choose to synchronise practically instantaneously from any of my client. Again and again, we are reminded by computer gurus to be sure to backup anything on our computers that we don’t want to lose. The function I am talking about is the automatic synchronisation of my client (desktop, laptop, cell phone) files with the NAS. I already backup my (NAS) files automatically from the NAS itself. It should be possible to ‘automate’ backups from the NAS itself. You should not need to rely on the desktop client software.
