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<p>1 revision imported</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This article describes how to setup rdiff-backup on a [[QNAP]] [[NAS]] device. This is useful if you want to make incremental backups of your server. This recipe has been tested on a TS-509 Pro. <br /> <br /> == QNAP Server Setup ==<br /> <br /> Install [[Ipkg]] on the qnap server. See [[Install Optware IPKG]], but briefly: <br /> <br /> *Go to System Tool -&amp;gt; qpkg -&amp;gt; Get qpkg <br /> *Right click &quot;Optware IPKG (Itsy Package Management System)&quot; copy and paste link to new browser <br /> *Download the software and then install as fireware update<br /> <br /> Update ipkg and install rdiff-backup <br /> <br /> ipkg update<br /> ipkg list | grep rdiff-backup<br /> ipkg install py26-rdiff-backup<br /> <br /> Find out the version of rdiff-backup because your other rdiff-backup software will need to match exactly. Note it has a slightly different name than normal. <br /> <br /> rdiff-backup-2.6 -V<br /> <br /> Make a symbolic link in the paths so that we can call rdiff-backup rather than rdiff-backup-2.6 from the shell <br /> <br /> ln -s /opt/bin/rdiff-backup-2.6 /opt/bin/rdiff-backup<br /> <br /> Test our command <br /> <br /> rdiff-backup -V<br /> <br /> Make a soft link so that it can be accessed by ssh <br /> <br /> ln -s /opt/bin/rdiff-backup-2.6 /bin/rdiff-backup<br /> <br /> Test this on a remote machine <br /> <br /> ssh admin@yourqnapserver rdiff-backup -V<br /> <br /> == How to use rdiff-backup ==<br /> <br /> The software is quite simple and there is a good guides here: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html . <br /> <br /> [[Category:Backup]] [[Category:Remote Replication/ Disaster Recovery]] [[Category:QPKG]] [[Category:Optware_IPKG]]</div>

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