Thund3rDuck
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- Aug 24, 2013
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Good afternoon and happy Saturday to you all.
In part of my setting up my FreeNAS box, one of my main concerns is backing up its Data. I do not have the funds nor the availability of additional hard drives for another FreeNAS install to rsync to. The only alternative it seems is to backup to an external hard drive via USB. If there is another alternative please enlighten me. My end goal would be to backup to one drive locally (once or twice a day) and then backup to another external drive ($$) monthly and keep it offsite. As of right now I'd like to just setup the daily backup so I at least have that.
I know I probably could figure out how to set it up with rsync in the FreeNAS shell and then schedule it via cron, but I would prefer to make sure I know how to do it in the GUI as well. Please keep all solutions in regards to setting it up in the GUI.
The second part of that question would be how would I restore from that USB hard drive?
Thank you all for your assistance.
In part of my setting up my FreeNAS box, one of my main concerns is backing up its Data. I do not have the funds nor the availability of additional hard drives for another FreeNAS install to rsync to. The only alternative it seems is to backup to an external hard drive via USB. If there is another alternative please enlighten me. My end goal would be to backup to one drive locally (once or twice a day) and then backup to another external drive ($$) monthly and keep it offsite. As of right now I'd like to just setup the daily backup so I at least have that.
I know I probably could figure out how to set it up with rsync in the FreeNAS shell and then schedule it via cron, but I would prefer to make sure I know how to do it in the GUI as well. Please keep all solutions in regards to setting it up in the GUI.
The second part of that question would be how would I restore from that USB hard drive?
Thank you all for your assistance.