Backing up DietPi to NAS drive

[Crake]

That is what this solution is about. To have a NFS share mounted

Already created on My Qnap NAS, gave all the permissions, but...tried everything bu i simply can-t Access/Mount it on Drive Manager!
So annoying...
Any other ideas, please?

[Joulinar]

on your Qnap NA, do you create a CIFS share or a NFS share? What option you use on dietpi-drive_manager to mount the network share?

[Crake]

on your Qnap NA, do you create a CIFS share or a NFS share? What option you use on dietpi-drive_manager to mount the network share?

On Qnap i have created a NFS share folder, named it "DietPi" and like i told you before, gave all the permissions.
On drive manager i chose "Add network drive" and then "NFS".
Next gave the ip address/share folder.

Any thoughts what can be wrong?

Btw, no matter what, i thank you very much

[Joulinar]

can you try to mount the NFS export manually

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mount <nfs_server_ip>:/server/export /mnt/nfs_client

[Crake]

can you try to mount the NFS export manually

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mount <nfs_server_ip>:/server/export /mnt/nfs_client

I guess no...
Watch the print screen

[Joulinar]

well your mount command seems to be wrong. Looks like you are trying to have /mnt/Backup as target directory. But it is not existing. Pls ensure to have the directory created before.

As well server/export was just an example for an exported NFS directory. It would need to be replaced by your own folder you have exported on your NAS.

[Crake]

well your mount command seems to be wrong. Looks like you are trying to have /mnt/Backup as target directory. But it is not existing. Pls ensure to have the directory created before.

As well server/export was just an example for an exported NFS directory. It would need to be replaced by your own folder you have exported on your NAS.

Ok, sorry but i can't follow your thoughts!

I have a NFS folder created on My NAS and named it "DietPi". My NAS ip is 192.168.31.8.
Here, on dietpi machine i wat to name the NFS mounted as "Backup", so what am i supposed to do?

I tried this:
mount 192.168.31.8/DietPi /mnt/Backup

But didn't work again!

[Joulinar]

first you would need to create the Backup directory on DietPi (oif not already done)

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mkdir /mnt/Backup

and the mount should looks like this

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mount 192.168.31.8:/DietPi /mnt/Backup

[Crake]

first you would need to create the Backup directory on DietPi (oif not already done)

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mkdir /mnt/Backup

and the mount should looks like this

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mount 192.168.31.8:/DietPi /mnt/Backup

Joulinar, i really don't know how can i thank you enough!
It worked Man!!! Finally...Amazing!
You are the best.
Now i just need to search/learn how to schedule automatic backups to the NAS.
Thanks a lot, seriously.

Update:
Didn't work:
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/lib/zlib_deflate" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/lib/zstd" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/mm" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/6lowpan" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/802" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/8021q" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/9p" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/appletalk" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/atm" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/ax25" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/net/batman-adv" failed: Operation not permitted (1)

It is very strange because it copied all the tree, created all the directories, but somehow there were files that gave these errors...

[Joulinar]

hmm looks like permission issues. You would need to compare source and target file system

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ls -la /lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/
ls -la /mnt/Backup/dietpi-backup/data/lib/modules/5.4.79+/kernel/

Which user you used to run dietpi-backup ?