Vishnu Rao
Regular Contributor
Background info: I have a RT-AC68U running the latest Merlin build: 380.63_2. All good and stable! I have two hard drives connected. First is a USB2.0 2 TB EXT4 drive and second is a USB3.0 4 TB NTFS drive. First drive has data (vacation pics, docs, music etc) and second drive is a brand new drive. Also I have installed entware on drive 1 and installed rsync & screen to this drive1.
Problem statement: I want to backup the directory that has the invaluable data (pics, docs, music) to the new drive, so that I have a copy of the data in case I lose one of the drives. Since I sometimes modify the data, I would like to use rsync so that the backup copy stays in sync with the original.
I sshed into RT-AC68U and invoked rsync to copy from source to destination. Soon I realized that I had to log off, which would kill the rsync. Some web searching lead me to two options. Stackexchange link
a. use the nohup option
But as soon as I exit the ssh session, the rsync operation stops.
I also tried a variation that I found on the web.
b. The second option I tried was the screen option. Using instructions from the stackexchange link above, I detach the screen and exit the ssh session. The rsync operation stops.
Both options should work. But does not work for me. Any ideas on why?
Problem statement: I want to backup the directory that has the invaluable data (pics, docs, music) to the new drive, so that I have a copy of the data in case I lose one of the drives. Since I sometimes modify the data, I would like to use rsync so that the backup copy stays in sync with the original.
I sshed into RT-AC68U and invoked rsync to copy from source to destination. Soon I realized that I had to log off, which would kill the rsync. Some web searching lead me to two options. Stackexchange link
a. use the nohup option
Code:
nohup rsync --partial -a /mnt/source/data/ /mnt/dest/data/ &But as soon as I exit the ssh session, the rsync operation stops.
I also tried a variation that I found on the web.
Code:
nohup rsync --partial -a /mnt/source/data/ /mnt/dest/data/ < /dev/null &b. The second option I tried was the screen option. Using instructions from the stackexchange link above, I detach the screen and exit the ssh session. The rsync operation stops.
Both options should work. But does not work for me. Any ideas on why?
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