NFS Share and Rsync

[Mike Thompson]

I am using the latest FreeNAS on one of their boxes. I am trying to set up rsync backup on another server to the NFS share I created in FreeNAS. I can get it to work although it randomly quits part way through the rsync backup, but the bigger issue is it is trying to save the permissions so I can restore from it but it can't set the UID and GID properly as the Users and Groups on the linux box don't exist on the FreeBSD FreeNAS box. What am I missing to get this implemented? Thanks

 

[Spearfoot]

I am using the latest FreeNAS on one of their boxes. I am trying to set up rsync backup on another server to the NFS share I created in FreeNAS. I can get it to work although it randomly quits part way through the rsync backup, but the bigger issue is it is trying to save the permissions so I can restore from it but it can't set the UID and GID properly as the Users and Groups on the linux box don't exist on the FreeBSD FreeNAS box. What am I missing to get this implemented? Thanks

Rsync can be quirky beast... I posted a couple of write-ups on it here; hopefully they'll give you some ideas:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...rmissions-support-for-windows-datasets.43973/
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/easy-rsync-task-creation.46373/

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

the bigger issue is it is trying to save the permissions so I can restore from it but it can't set the UID and GID properly as the Users and Groups on the linux box don't exist on the FreeBSD FreeNAS box

Tell rsync to use numeric IDs.

 

[Spearfoot]

Full details on rsync are available at samba.org.