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I searched the forum for backup topics but I was a bit lost. There is a lot of discussion on backup setup but I'm still missing some fundamental information: What to backup at all and why. The FreeNAS Guide didn't elaborate on backup that much either.
Can anyone point me to some good reading / forum entries on the following topics:
1st: boot device. I have a USB thumbdrive as a boot medium. I understood that this gets updated with boot menu entries so it gets changes. What else is written to the boot medium? Does it make sense at all to have a backup of this? If it got lost what would be required to get the system running again? Is a copy of the original boot medium sufficient?
2nd: The FreeNAS system itself without any "payload storage". I can download / backup the system configuration and store it in cool dry place. In case I would have to rebuild the system: What is required for this apart from the system configuration database? Is there any backup of a dataset required for this? In the menu within System / System dataset I can select a dataset pool and whether syslog and / or reporting database should be stored there. Is there anything else which gets stored in this way? Can this be backuped and how? Can the system be rebuilt if the syslog and reporting database data would get lost in an emergency?
Can anyone point me to some good reading / forum entries on the following topics:
1st: boot device. I have a USB thumbdrive as a boot medium. I understood that this gets updated with boot menu entries so it gets changes. What else is written to the boot medium? Does it make sense at all to have a backup of this? If it got lost what would be required to get the system running again? Is a copy of the original boot medium sufficient?
2nd: The FreeNAS system itself without any "payload storage". I can download / backup the system configuration and store it in cool dry place. In case I would have to rebuild the system: What is required for this apart from the system configuration database? Is there any backup of a dataset required for this? In the menu within System / System dataset I can select a dataset pool and whether syslog and / or reporting database should be stored there. Is there anything else which gets stored in this way? Can this be backuped and how? Can the system be rebuilt if the syslog and reporting database data would get lost in an emergency?