Re: NAS Backup solution? (NAS? What NAS?)

In message <slrn105j7cj.v5sv.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
          Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-21, Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote:

Hi.
 
I've (fairly) recently become the proud owner of a Pi5 running Raspberry
Pi OS. Storage is a 250 Gig NVMe drive.
 
I also have a Synology NAS.
 
I'm looking for suggestions on software I can use to back up the Pi5 to
the NAS. I've seen conflicting suggestions on various sites, so thought I
would come to the fount of all knowledge that is Usenet.

 
I think this depends on what is the meaning of "NAS". In many (most?)
cases, NAS means a VFAT file system projected through CIFS/Samba to the
LAN. The unit does not have a user-accessible operating system. In some
cases there is Linux under the hood, but no way to install applications on
it.
 
In such an environment, /rsync/ is not an option.

My NAS runs OpenMediaVault.  It happens that mine is on a Raspberry Pi,
but it's available (at zero cost) for many platforms.  It's Linux under
the bonnet, and the file systems in my case are ext4 - I can't imagine
anyone would choose VFAT for use under Linux.

And rsync most definitely /is/ an option; I use it.

David