Setting up RSync script on NAS

rsync-it.sh

#I'm Nitin the DevOps guy and these instructions are for whoever chooses to follow...

#Some NAS require sec=ntlm or sec=ntlmv2 as an option for it to mount
#Get catty with /proc/filesystem to check if cifs has been loaded after first use, them dmesg | tail to look for any other errors

#sudo mount -t cifs -o username=Administrator,password=Password123$ //192.168.1.53/e$ /mnt/53e/


#Take a stab at auto-loading with the following in /etc/fstab and mount -a
#Add the sec option if needed

#//192.168.1.53/e$ /mnt/53e cifs username=Administrator,password=Password123$ 0 0


#Test on command line

rsync -rv /mnt/53e/Backup/BARCODE_EAN/ /volume1/Backup/ScannerDBs/PULLBARCODE_EAN


#And finally get this into /etc/crontab to schedule it

#0   *   *   *   *   root    rsync -rv /mnt/53e/Backup/BARCODE_EAN/ /volume1/Backup/ScannerDBs/PULLBARCODE_EAN


#When the time comes, "ps aux" it

Use --whole-file to reduce the CPU usage; this will get rsync to copy the entire file instead of a diff of the file.

The default behavior of rsync is to perform a whole file copy unless the copy has to occur over the network, in which case it attempts to copy diffs of the files instead.