Hi, I’ve been using BackupPC for many years, and when Steph made it available on NS8, I was very happy about it. I have always created Backup Servers with NS7 and BackupPC to secure the files of other NS7 instances. Now, I find myself needing to use an “old” Backup Server 7.9 with BackupPC, and I …

[image] pierluigi: Is that really the case? Can I use “this” rsync, or am I completely missing something? Yes, you have missed something. NS8 is not to be compared with NS7. Please see the NS8 manual to get a basic understanding of the differences between NS7 and NS8. [image] pierluigi: I…

Thanks a lot for the link. I’m aware of the basic differences between NS7 and NS8, and I appreciate the reminder to keep learning. But as an old sysadmin, I could never walk away from rsync and its miracles :wink:

blind shot but did you install rsync on the ns8, I am not sure we could use the rsync in the container (used to move/clone a module)

Steph is right, the rsync core container could fit your needs, preserving UID/GID mappings and extended attributes required by Samba to store ACLs. You can manually start an instance of it for the Samba application. For example: runagent -m samba1 podman run -d ...args I haven’t tried it myself, …