NAS to USB automatic incremental backup

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found a way to do it natively so may be others will find it useful.
what i want from my backup:

  1. automatic
  2. incremental
  3. NAS to attached USB drive.
    this functionality is not available out of the box. so here is a solution.

backup script can be placed anywhere, for simplicity we’ll put it in Public (/mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public/)
backup_local.sh:

#!/bin/sh
source=/mnt/HD/HD_a2/
dest=/mnt/USB/USB1_b1/backups

date=date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"
rsync -rltDP
–delete
–delete-excluded
–log-file=$dest/backup-$date.log
–link-dest=$dest/current
–include ‘user1/’
–include 'user2/’
–include ‘Public/’
–include ‘Public/books/’
–include 'Public/music/’
–include ‘Public/photos/**’
–exclude '’
$source $dest/backup-$date

rm -f $dest/current
ln -s backup-$date $dest/current

more info about rsync time machine here: https://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html

schedule
edit /usr/local/config/config.xml:

<crond>
	<list>
		....
		<name id="102">my_backup_local</name>	
	</list>
	...
	<my_backup_local>
		<count>1</count>
		<item id="1">
		<method>3</method>
		<1>0</1>
		<2>3</2>
		<3>*</3>
		<4>*</4>
		<5>*</5>
		<run>/mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public/backup_local.sh &amp;</run>
		</item>
	</my_backup_local>
</crond>

reboot NAS
done!

*** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK ***

2

Hi,

Thanks for sharing.

Please add a disclaimer to the users to let them know that they will be doing that at their own risk.

3

Thanks ERmorel! Of course:)

4

Hi, I did everything as described and wondering what should happen. I couldn’t find any new menu point or something in the settings. I’ve also made sure to use the proper single and double quotation marks in the file. Cheers

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the task will run in the background, no new menu points/setting will be visible.
In the example above backup will run every day at 3am and will be stored in /mnt/USB/USB1_b1/backups/current
you should also see a log in:
/mnt/USB/USB1_b1/backups/backup-xxxxxx.log