Getting a weird error when running a scheduled rsync task

  • So years ago when I built my NAS, it was recommend to me on these forums to use a rsync command in Scheduled Tasks to mirror my storage drives instead of using RAID.


    This has been a prefect solution for me all these years. I actually added another couple of drives and followed the same steps for those drives as well.


    Everything has been working fine for the past few days. I have moved media from the main drive to the new drives so I can better organize data and have ran the Scheduled Tasks without issues, until now.


    I do think everything is still being mirrored over and backed up but I'm not sure if its correct.


    These are the Scheduled Tasks commands I run as root user in the Scheduled Tasks control panel page.


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    rsync -av --delete /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-8f7fbbcc-4bbd-4e30-810c-7002cf34afc7/ /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-462f1369-3bff-4cb4-b196-7ac1d91535a2/
    
    
    rsync -av --delete /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-58438db9-6dab-4c30-b2c9-599c486ad1cd/ /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-49a40545-0564-4501-8f15-0ba07be782ff/


    This is the error I am getting after running either of the tasks.

    What did I do and how do I fix it as it went from being fine, to this error ?


    Thanks to anyone that can get me back to normal :)

  • If you do not use quota, install the mounteditor plugin and remove the quota mount option from the filesystem concerned.

    I don’t set quotas as I’m the only user. Where do I find the mounteditor plugin ? And would this fix this issue ? I used to get the permission denied message before for aquota.group and aquota.user and everything still worked. But now I get these other errors, and it’ll give a connection lost message and then the big red block with the error to copy down.

    • Official Post

    Where do I find the mounteditor plugin ?

    You can install it from plugins, if you have omv-extras installed.



    And would this fix this issue ?

    Don't know. Try.

  • You can install it from plugins, if you have omv-extras installed.



    Don't know. Try.

    It's my night off so figured I try to get this fixed.


    Try to install omv-extras but doesn't seem to work.


    When I put in the command line it shoots back a failed message.


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     root@nasbox:/etc# wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/packages/raw/master/install | bash
    --2025-07-21 18:02:11--  https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/packages/raw/master/install
    Resolving github.com (github.com)... failed: Name or service not known.
    wget: unable to resolve host address ‘github.com’
    • Official Post

    wget: unable to resolve host address ‘github.com’

    It looks like you're having a DNS resolution issue. Check your network settings. If you have a fixed IP address, make sure you have a DNS server configured.

    Once you've resolved the DNS issue, you should update your system before attempting to install anything.

  • It looks like you're having a DNS resolution issue. Check your network settings. If you have a fixed IP address, make sure you have a DNS server configured.

    Once you've resolved the DNS issue, you should update your system before attempting to install anything.

    Well good news, I was able to get the DNS working (Not sure why it stopped as I did updates not that long ago). Went into interfaces, edited my network card information for the DNS to use my router IP so it could use the DNS server I got set on my router.


    Was able to install omv-extras and I don't see mounteditor as a plugin to be install within the Plugin page out of the 46 listed plugins to choose from. So is it a different plugin name ?


    Also when I click the magnifying glass, I get another error.



    When I run apt-get update by shell in putty, it tells me all that stuff pretty much with this line


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    Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
    N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

    After reading the manpage, it sounds like I need some kinda apt-key to fix this.



    ... starting to kick myself here with all the issues and trouble to have a simple network storage box with a backup drive.

    Edited once, last by Elochai: Added more detailed information ().

    • Official Post

    You are using an version of OMV/Debian that is end-of-life since a long time (OMV6 EOL was Jul 2024). It looks like Debian has removed their bullseye-backports package respository which makes the APT configuration on your system incorrect. Since OMV6 is EOL, there will be no patches that will fix that. I'm sorry to say, you're too late to do a smooth migration to OMV7.

  • You are using an version of OMV/Debian that is end-of-life since a long time (OMV6 EOL was Jul 2024). It looks like Debian has removed their bullseye-backports package respository which makes the APT configuration on your system incorrect. Since OMV6 is EOL, there will be no patches that will fix that. I'm sorry to say, you're too late to do a smooth migration to OMV7.

    Only thing I really need to be sure of that works is the rsync command for backing up to the other drives. If the original error could be fixed then I’d be fine. But as of right now, I don’t even know if it’s making correct mirrors of the data or not.

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