How To Wakeup Backup Nas Server and Mirror Files Using Rsync in Linux

Sep 17, 2015, 12:00 (0 Talkback[s])
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I've a critical data stored on my small home server. I backup my Desktop, Laptop and a remote VPS server to my home nas server powered by Debian Linux using rsnapshot backup utility. In the event that my main nas server has a hardware (hard disk failure) problem, having mirrored files provides some sort of peace of mind. How do I mirror /backups/personal (total 100GB and growing everyday) to a secondary nas Linux server located in my network?

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