@Adrian
Many thanks for the high level view :) which I really appreciate because it gives me lot of impulses which I am currently thinking of. It is probably the longest virus I have (=Windows) and yes the less "feartures" a NAS has to the, the better for the security of my data.
I admit that I overlooked the fact where iXsystems make their profit and now understand that the proposals from private users like me may sound like a joke to them. Perhaps I was mislead by the many gimmicks FreeNAS brought to me over time (jails, VM's, services etc.) which a normal NAS would normally not have. Then I started comparing FreeNAS with systems like QNAP which have this suggested backup function of copying data to NTFS-USB-Drive and thought: hey why the architects cannot put such a simple task to it? Now I understand.
I will have a closer look at TrueNAS and other BSD-based OS because with the time I started to enjoy BSD and although I am infected by the virus (see above) and have very little UNIX knowledge, BSD became my preferred OS. Now my little son started enjoying programming and I wanted to lead him to a virus-free-OS and therefore suggested BSD. Also with the quiet hope that one day he can administer the Home-NAS when I get retired :)
All I have to watch is that I don't mess up my zpools with whatever change I do. I already set up two separate N54L which run FreeNAS to replicate the source pools every week. It's not a true backup but in case the main hardware would brake I have the data next door.
Because I have a few 3TB USB-Drives from earlier days I thought it therefore would be great to have the data also backed up there. It was only my brains that wanted to accomplish the task directly from FreeNAS and it should not be a problem to do it from a separate machine (even if it is done through Linux or Windows from a VM within FreeNAS).
I also learned from your explanation how I can explain it to a new user because I was put up by the very short comments a la "the system is not to designed for" or "you should not to so". You really put it straight forward so a programmer and a businessman understands it. Thank you!
Many thanks for the high level view :) which I really appreciate because it gives me lot of impulses which I am currently thinking of. It is probably the longest virus I have (=Windows) and yes the less "feartures" a NAS has to the, the better for the security of my data.
I admit that I overlooked the fact where iXsystems make their profit and now understand that the proposals from private users like me may sound like a joke to them. Perhaps I was mislead by the many gimmicks FreeNAS brought to me over time (jails, VM's, services etc.) which a normal NAS would normally not have. Then I started comparing FreeNAS with systems like QNAP which have this suggested backup function of copying data to NTFS-USB-Drive and thought: hey why the architects cannot put such a simple task to it? Now I understand.
I will have a closer look at TrueNAS and other BSD-based OS because with the time I started to enjoy BSD and although I am infected by the virus (see above) and have very little UNIX knowledge, BSD became my preferred OS. Now my little son started enjoying programming and I wanted to lead him to a virus-free-OS and therefore suggested BSD. Also with the quiet hope that one day he can administer the Home-NAS when I get retired :)
All I have to watch is that I don't mess up my zpools with whatever change I do. I already set up two separate N54L which run FreeNAS to replicate the source pools every week. It's not a true backup but in case the main hardware would brake I have the data next door.
Because I have a few 3TB USB-Drives from earlier days I thought it therefore would be great to have the data also backed up there. It was only my brains that wanted to accomplish the task directly from FreeNAS and it should not be a problem to do it from a separate machine (even if it is done through Linux or Windows from a VM within FreeNAS).
I also learned from your explanation how I can explain it to a new user because I was put up by the very short comments a la "the system is not to designed for" or "you should not to so". You really put it straight forward so a programmer and a businessman understands it. Thank you!