Qnap and osync

Here i'll tell you a way to install Osync on Windows and run it to synchronize with a Qnap rsync server

Install osync

Cygwin

• Install Cygwin
• Add the following packages to Cygwin
  • mutt
  • openssh
  • procps-ng
  • rsync
  • sshpass
  • wget
  • git
  • dos2unix
• Start cygwin shell and install osync
  • git clone -b "stable" https://github.com/deajan/osync.git (or https://github.com/kendarorg/osync.git if you want the qnap compatible at once)
  • dos2unix osync/*.sh
  • dos2unix osync/dev/*.sh
  • cd osync
  • ./install.sh

Qnap side

• Install the Hybrid Bakup Sync on Qnap and open it
• Enable the rsync daemon on the "Services" tab
• On the rsync daemon Check the "Access with local QTS accounts" check

Remote sync (via ssh)

• Under your home dir (let's say /home/myname ) prepare a password file. This is not as secure as with the shared key but very easy

  echo MYPASSWORD > /home/myname/osync.pwd

• Now run the command. Please note that the ssh parts are "ssh://login@host//fullpath"

  • --password-file: the full path to the password file
  • --initiator: the source directory (the content of)
  • --target: the destination directory (the content of)

  osync.sh --password-file=/home/myname/osync.pwd --initiator="/cygdrive/c/ToBackup" --target="ssh://admin@192.168.1.1:22//share/ToBackup"

For further instructions see https://github.com/deajan/osync

Last modified on: November 04, 2020