I'm trying to figure out the most user-friendly way to backup my important data on my FreeNAS box. What I'm trying to accomplish is to create a copy of certain data that is stored on my FreeNAS datastores onto external drives (2x 1TB USB Drives). The FreeNAS server is running as a virtual machine on VMWare ESXi along with 4 windows servers (Server 2003R2/2008R2).
I've thought about just mounting the USB drives as a local datastore and using rsync or something similar to create a scheduled backup. This would be a great solution, except that I'll be away from home for an extended period of time, and in the event of an issue with the server, I want my wife to be able to be able to access the data from the USB drive easily on a windows client. With that, the only thing I can think of that would possibly work is to mount the USB drive on one of the windows servers and do an rsync from the FreeNAS box to the windows box.
Ultimately, I need a USB backup solution to backup my ZFS datastores on my FreeNAS box that can be accessed from a windows client in the event of data loss on the NAS.
Is there a better solution to this? I'd love to hear any recommendations.
I've thought about just mounting the USB drives as a local datastore and using rsync or something similar to create a scheduled backup. This would be a great solution, except that I'll be away from home for an extended period of time, and in the event of an issue with the server, I want my wife to be able to be able to access the data from the USB drive easily on a windows client. With that, the only thing I can think of that would possibly work is to mount the USB drive on one of the windows servers and do an rsync from the FreeNAS box to the windows box.
Ultimately, I need a USB backup solution to backup my ZFS datastores on my FreeNAS box that can be accessed from a windows client in the event of data loss on the NAS.
Is there a better solution to this? I'd love to hear any recommendations.