rsync access to home directory

[anelson]

I was quite disappointed when I ran across this post confirming that the current firmware revision does not support rsync access to the home share.

This is a serious drag for me, since it means I can't migrate my home directory off my old FreeBSD NAS with rsync, but rather have to copy it off with CIFS then write it to the NV+ with CIFS; a painfully slow process if ever there was one.

There doesn't seem to be a good reason why home shares are such second class citizens. Please consider treating them like any other share, so we can access them as we see fit.

[ssteven1]

I believe also that automatically created use homes are not available as NFS exports.

I've had to disable home directories in the User preferences and had to create individual homes (which incidently the ReadyNAS wouldn't allow me to name the same as the user, ARGHHH).

I agree, user homes should appear in the share list like everything else. Even if they're collapsed into a single "Auto User Homes" entry.

[magi]

+1. I just wanted this, and spent a few minutes running in circles looking for the way to enable it before I remembered seeing this post a while ago.

Really, I want to be able to do all the normal things with user shares that I can with first-class shares, or otherwise, user shares aren't so useful. They should just be first-class shares.

[airwofl]

Agree - had to manually add rsync jobs at the command line for mine. For those on 3.x with SSH access, you need to update one of the PERL scripts to ensure your manual changes don't get overwritten.

[Liftow]

+1
I would prefer to use rsync as opposed to CIFS to backup to secondary NAS across a WAN connection.