backup a drive's content to Synology NAS

[ultimate99]

I want to back up an ssd in my pc, running linux,  (1tb) to my Synology NAS, and be able to access it from anywhere (as a personal cloud drive). I followed this guide: https://gnax.io/backup-to-your-synology-nas-with-rsync/

 

I got this error when I tried to sync by Downloads folder (to test it out):

 

My input:

 

user@diskstation:~$ rsync -av --delete -e "ssh -i /home/rsync/.ssh/id_rsa -p 99" /home/user/Downloads/ [email protected]::NetBackup/

 

Error:

 

sending incremental file list

rsync: change_dir "/home/user/Downloads" failed: No such file or directory (2) sent 12 bytes received 8 bytes 2.67 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1355) [sender=3.0.9]

 

Any ideas?

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

This might be a long shot, but I think you need sudo at the front of that... Don't quote me though... 🤔

[ultimate99]

I was able to get it working. Is there a way to automate this? For example, any changes to the folder, it would automatically reflect in the NAS?