[SOLVED] Deltacopy on Win2K3 as Server to Freenas client

[tbyers31]

Hello,
I have been running Freenas 0.7.2 for a couple of years now. Was going to add software Raid and decided a second server with Rsync would be worth trying instead. I came across an old Win2003 server and installed Deltacopy without issue. The W2K3 server is setup in Server Mode and has a virtual directory named RSYNC that points to the local directory D:\Backup where sits a document called "New Text Document.txt"

My Freenas server has a share called RSYNC (\\FREENAS\RSYNC) which points to a subdirectory of the HomeShare mnt (/mnt/HomeShare/RSYNC). I've enabled the Freenas rsync CLIENT mode. The settings for the Rsync job are:
Local Share: \\FREENAS\RSYNC
Remote Rsync Server: 192.168.1.128 (this is my Win2k3 server running Deltacopy server)
Remote Module Name: /RSYNC (I read from another post that this should point to the Freenas Share)
Who: root

Enabling, Saving, and Executing all looks good but the Test.doc file doesn't get copied from the Win2K3 server to Freenas that I can tell.

So I went to the Freenas log to look at the Rsync client messages. Interestingly enough, they show:

2012/12/10 22:35:03 [84633] sent 30 bytes received 154 bytes total size 37
2012/12/10 22:35:03 [84691] >f+++++++++ New Text Document.txt
2012/12/10 22:35:03 [84691] cd+++++++++ ./
2012/12/10 22:35:03 [84633] receiving file list

I set the job to run every five minutes and the log indicates it is. But for the life of me I can't find "New Text Document.txt " anywhere on my Freenas server!

I'm guessing I have some path wrong somewhere but I'm stumped. Any ideas?

[tbyers31]

This always happens. As soon as I post I stumble across the answer...

The problem was the name of my local share. I had it listed in Windows share format "\\FREENAS\RSYNC" which Freenas doesn't like. It wants Linux format "/mnt/HomeShare/RSYNC/".

I ran a test based on the instructions from a youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMj6S_Qe3o using a vmware linux install and command line.
This proved that my Deltacopy was set up properly. If you watch it you'll notice that the command to actually send the files uses the proper syntax of the directory on the linux (i.e. freenas) side. So when I went back to the REAL freenas configuration the Windows syntax (\\FRENAS\RSYNC) looked odd. In fact, when I clicked on the browse icon it couldn't find that spot (configuring from IE on the Win2K3 didn't help).

Anyway, now everything is great except I think I want the Win2K box (current server) to backup the Freenas server (currently client). So I'm guessing I just set up Deltacopy as client and Freenas as Server.

There's another post that explains this but for now I'm happy. Hope this helps someone.