Discounted Offsite Backup offer from rsync.net to FreeNAS users

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John Hixson

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rsync.net contacted us about this and I'd thought I'd pass it along for anyone interested:

rsync.net is offering a special discount to the FreeNAS community.

Their well known open standards platform, based on ZFS, was built to
integrate with UNIX systems like FreeNAS.

Since they allow plain old rsync over SSH, a FreeNAS device integrates
perfectly. ZFS snapshots are enabled so users can do "dumb" mirrors
of their data and let rsync.net do the versioning, or incrementals.

This offer is for new customers and has a rate of 10 cents per GB, per
month. There are no charges for traffic or usage and all future
upgrades will inherit this rate.

Just use this link to sign up:

https://www.rsync.net/signup/signup_offer.html?code=63d97c

If you haven't heard of rsync.net before, these links might be
interesting:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/faq.html
http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html
http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

- John
 

rsync.net

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We (rsync.net) just recently (February 15th) unveiled our new Backups as a Service (BaaS) offering:

http://rsync.net/products/managed.html

This is a fully managed backup service with an optional local storage component (that is also managed by us).

So, if you like to do things yourself, by all means avail yourself to the FreeNAS discount offer that John posted above.

However, if you are a firm, or have clients, that need a fully managed backup solution, contact us about our BaaS offering.
 

bigphil

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Thanks for the info and sweet deal! Its definitely worth investigating this!
 

cyberjock

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If you like what rsync(the program) offers then rsync.net works very well. I've helped a few people setup their account. A guide is coming to dumb down how simple it is to use rsync.net with rsync when I get time to write it up. ;)
 

screeny

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Hi, cyberjock,

I newbie in FreeNas however I setup my system in December last year and I'm really setisfied.

Now as next step after a few months is to setup the backup behind of this. We're photography professional (rest of my family) and recently we have cca. 1,5M files in system.

So it's really high risk to not setup a backup (no RAID setup).

My plan is to implement an extarnal storage and run cron to backup the files. Right now I'm gathering informations about the possibilities.
I have a few concern e.g. script to run rsync and mount/unmount esata attached storage after backup.

I'm looking forward to see your guide as a noob :)

Any suggestion/solution would be highly appreciated from and of you!

Thanks in advance!

PS: I've read/learned a lot of from you so thx a lot of!
 

cyberjock

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My guide won't explain any of your questions as I won't have a script because it will sync to rsync.net and that feature is part of the FreeNAS GUI. ;)
 

jgreco

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He's not using RAID? 1.5 million files? <<boggle>>
 

screeny

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He's not using RAID? 1.5 million files? <<boggle>>


Hi jgreco,

I'm not using RAID but my purpose is to backup with rsync to an external eSATA attached storage (as offline backup):)
 

cyberjock

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And a second mind is boggled. So now, when the drive starts corrupting files, but isn't actually completely failed, you'll happily backup those corrupt files with rsync to your external storage thereby corrupting your backups too.

Great choices!
 

screeny

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And a second mind is boggled. So now, when the drive starts corrupting files, but isn't actually completely failed, you'll happily backup those corrupt files with rsync to your external storage thereby corrupting your backups too.

Great choices!



I've learned from two of my IT specialist that RAID (soft. and hardw.) are also two additional risk and the offsite backup (weekly/bi-weekly - depends of the work) and turn off the external drive and that's all.

May I ask you how often happen that the ZFS pool corrupt the file just for fun?

Thank you!
 

cyberjock

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May I ask you how often happen that the ZFS pool corrupt the file just for fun?

ZFS never does it "just for fun". It's not a good thing when your product that claims to be the most reliable file system ever corrupts your data.

Your data gets corrupted because hardware is not perfect. Things go wrong and that's all there is to it.

We've had people with corruption within hours of setting up ZFS because of bad hardware, we've had people use ZFS for years without corruption. It's very much a personal experience.
 

screeny

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Okay, got it.

This is also a risk in NTFS always.
So I have to take this risk.

Thank you for explanation! Appreciate it!

What I don't know now is how to mount/turn on the eSATA for backup/start rsync cron job and turn off when it's done.
Certainly without manual operation.
 

gpsguy

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Since you are doing professional photography, I'd set up another FreeNAS server on your network and replicate to it. Do your offsite backups off that data.



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screeny

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Grrrrrrrrrrr..... I didn't wanted to hear that.... but for sure it's considerable! I agree!
I'll think over...
 

rsync.net

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We've written what we believe to be a very basic, simple guide to rsync.

It is NOT specific to rsync.net offsite backup, or even to cloud backups in general, but is a short, concise HOWTO that, unlike other HOWTOs, also includes detailed step by step for creating SSH keys and for adding the rsync backups to the crontab.

I know there are fancy ways to do this, but on my own FreeNAS device, I still just set things up via the command line, so this would be targeted to that kind of use:

http://rsync.net/resources/howto/rsync.html

Hope this is helpful.
 

rsync.net

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John Hixson posted this thread, originally, six years ago :)

I wanted to add an update that we have have new promo pricing for FreeNAS users - there is now a special price for new users that sign up in August of 2 cents per GB, per month.

Same URL as it was in 2013:

https://www.rsync.net/signup/signup_offer.html?code=63d97c

... which is for a standard account that you can point rsync, rclone, restic, borg, or any other SFTP/SSH tool at. If, on the other hand, you'd like to 'zfs send' to our cloud storage platform, you should use this link instead:

https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

... which also has the same promo pricing.
 
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