Windows 10: adding WSL home folder to file history to be backed up to NAS

I am using File History not Backup to back up my personal folders to my NAS. I would like to add my home folder of my WSL to the list of files to be backed up.Any suggestions?

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Since 2022H2: File Explorer slow when Quick Access contains WSL folders.

After upgrading Windows 11 to 2022H2, the file explorer is slow showing it initial list of Quick Access folders in right panel.



It seems WSL locations in Quick access is causing the latency.



Before upgrade:

- Initial list of folders in right pane was fast. Quick access contains folders of WSL.

- Accessing WSL folder from Quick Access was slow (very slow).

- When WSL terminal is open, accessing WSL folder in File explorer was fast.



After 2022H2 upgrade:

- Initial list of folders in right pane is slow. Quick access contains folders of WSL.

- Accessing WSL folder from Quick Access is fast.

- When removing folders that point to WSL folders from Quick access, initial startup is swift.

- When adding folders pointing to WSL, file explorer is slow.

- When WSL terminal is open, initial startup of File Explorer is fast.



It seems like in previous version of Windows 11, WSL was lazily started when WSL folders were accessed, while after upgrading to 2022H2, WSL is initialized at startup of Explorer when WSL files are in Quick Access.



I think I prefer WSL to be started lazily since I do not always access WSL based folders.

 

File History and backup to a NAS

There's your problem. If you want to backup your personal folders, you need a backup program. That's not what File History was designed to do.

 

WSL - Rsync from Synology NAS to Windows 10

Hello,

I have installed WSL and Ubuntu on my Windows 10 computer. It works like a champ.

I can ssh into my Synology NAS and rsync works.

I understand how to set the permissions in the rsync command so that they are correct on the NAS but when I have to sync a NAS folder back to the Windows box I am not sure what permissions to apply. If I use the p option in the rsync command as a test when
syncing to the NAS from the Windows box the user file permissions are RWX, user directory permissions are RWX and group/other are left as ---.

Is this telling me to set the permissions within the rysnc command as --chmod=Du=rwx,Fu=rwx when syncing NAS to Windows? If not what should I use?

As a side note when I look at the files on the Windows box via the Ubuntu command line the permissions are listed as rwxrwxrwx for each directory and file.

Regards,

Chris