Hi Forum, seems things are overcomplicated - at least for me - so i kindly ask for help. GOAL: RSYNC Data from TrueNasFolder to a SMB Share Using the module i can configure a SMB Share however i dont know how to configure it to PUSH data to it. Any pointers are welcome

i raised that FR in Rsync Task should allow local 2 local synchronisation ( Local Destination Target ) - Feature Requests - TrueNAS Community Forums But your comment gave me the correct idea. I’ve mounted the SAMBA Share via CLI and will do rsync test truenas_admin@truenas[~]$sudo mount -t cifs -o…

Did you check this doc out? [image] Configuring Rsync Tasks Provides instructions on adding rsync tasks with two methods, SSH connection and module. Push vs Pull are set in the direction field

but how do i specify the SMB Share as a Target Location?

If you’ve already configured an rsync module to the location you want to target, you just need to create a task to push to it: [image] Configuring Rsync Tasks Provides instructions on adding rsync tasks with two methods, SSH connection and module.

its still not clear how to configure the module. 1.) Do i need to enable the module? as i would specify the same host path again as in the rsync task … which wouldnt make sense [image] Or can this remain be disabled as i only need the SMB Share? Which i configured as follows [image] edit: so…

You would need to use Rsync to do a “local” transfer, which is not supported in TrueNAS, unless you do it manually with the command-line. There was a feature request for this, I think.

another observation that i am running with hgih CPU Utilisation. Any idea how to relax CPU … it seems the whole systme locks up

I couldn’t figure out how to configure Rsync Task to rsync between 2 datasets on same NAS or NAS → SMB share. I don’t think it’s supported via Rsync Tasks. What I do is I run a cronjob that basically invokes rsync command.

@bugacha doing the same manually on CLI. Can you please show me how to create a cron for this. Also do you use any specific Flags for SMB?

this is a job for local dataset sync rsync -avhz --progress --inplace --delete /mnt/volume3/photos /mnt/volume1/ [image] for SMB remote, I usually mount via something file this : //nas3/photos /mnt/photos cifs credentials=/etc/smbcredentials,vers=3.0,_netdev,soft,nofail,noatime,actimeo=1800 0 0 …

great thanks. i’ll give this a try. the issue with my CPU Load seems to be related to SMB Oplocks which is disabeld on the target and now it doesnt lock up nor consume lots of CPU

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hArt1g4n June 2, 2025, 9:42am 17

Hello @rockstream ,

I just created it here

Details are in the new post.

Regards

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