Hi, i´m new to FreeNAS. This is my first NAS, i formerly only used external USB-Drives.
So now i´ve installed an ESXi-Server (Dell T20 with Xeon). Virtual machines are FreeNAS, Win10 and some small linux VMs.
Now i want to make a backup of my data on FreeNAS to an external USB-HDD. But i want to use this drive with a Windows-Computer for other things too. Maybe copy some large files on it to take it with me to work for example.
I´ve learnt, that FreeNAS only uses ZFS, so i can´t use NTFS anymore? Is there a way to use my external hdd with FreeNAS and Win10?
If i can´t do that, would this be a good idea:
Use the Win10 virtual machine to make a backup of the data on my FreeNAS virtual machine to a NTFS formated external drive? Or make a network share for the external drive connected to the Win10-Machine and make my backup directly from FreeNAs to the network share?
If this helps in any way:
On my Win10-VM i´ve already installed Veeam Backup to make backups of my virtual machines. But i don´t want to make backup of whole freenas, i only want to backup one volume. The other volume is only tv recordings - there i don´t need any raid or backup. Nothing important.
So now i´ve installed an ESXi-Server (Dell T20 with Xeon). Virtual machines are FreeNAS, Win10 and some small linux VMs.
Now i want to make a backup of my data on FreeNAS to an external USB-HDD. But i want to use this drive with a Windows-Computer for other things too. Maybe copy some large files on it to take it with me to work for example.
I´ve learnt, that FreeNAS only uses ZFS, so i can´t use NTFS anymore? Is there a way to use my external hdd with FreeNAS and Win10?
If i can´t do that, would this be a good idea:
Use the Win10 virtual machine to make a backup of the data on my FreeNAS virtual machine to a NTFS formated external drive? Or make a network share for the external drive connected to the Win10-Machine and make my backup directly from FreeNAs to the network share?
If this helps in any way:
On my Win10-VM i´ve already installed Veeam Backup to make backups of my virtual machines. But i don´t want to make backup of whole freenas, i only want to backup one volume. The other volume is only tv recordings - there i don´t need any raid or backup. Nothing important.