Hello fellow FreeNAS-Users,
last week i set up my FreeNAS-Server. My backup-idea was to work on an internal 3TB drive "alexandria", taking hourly snapshots and replicate them to a second identical internal 3TB drive "backup". A third external drive is used to prevent dataloss due to something happening with my box. Alexandria consists of 4 datasets and 2 jails with different sharing configurations (cifs, ssh, tcp with the jails).
Today i tried to simulate a crash of my working volume. Therefore i removed alexandria after a system shutdown and replaced it with an so far unused 3TB drive. The documentation (http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Periodic_Snapshot_Tasks) indicated "if there is a catastrophic loss, an off-site snapshot can restore the system up to the last snapshot interval". So i thought it would be possible to use some simple options in the GUI to set up a new "alexandria"-drive with all sharing capabilities of the old with the help of my "backup"-drive.
After some hours of working and searching on the subject, i didn't found such a quick solution and wanted to ask here in the community, how you would solve the problem?
My FreeBSD-experience is one week old and my Linux-capabilities are not too bold... so i looked for a way to solve my problem with the FreeNAS-GUI. I'm sorry, if this topic is treated in an other post or the documentation and i wasn't able to find it. In this case i would be very grateful for the links to these topics.
I thank you for your time,
merlin
last week i set up my FreeNAS-Server. My backup-idea was to work on an internal 3TB drive "alexandria", taking hourly snapshots and replicate them to a second identical internal 3TB drive "backup". A third external drive is used to prevent dataloss due to something happening with my box. Alexandria consists of 4 datasets and 2 jails with different sharing configurations (cifs, ssh, tcp with the jails).
Today i tried to simulate a crash of my working volume. Therefore i removed alexandria after a system shutdown and replaced it with an so far unused 3TB drive. The documentation (http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Periodic_Snapshot_Tasks) indicated "if there is a catastrophic loss, an off-site snapshot can restore the system up to the last snapshot interval". So i thought it would be possible to use some simple options in the GUI to set up a new "alexandria"-drive with all sharing capabilities of the old with the help of my "backup"-drive.
After some hours of working and searching on the subject, i didn't found such a quick solution and wanted to ask here in the community, how you would solve the problem?
My FreeBSD-experience is one week old and my Linux-capabilities are not too bold... so i looked for a way to solve my problem with the FreeNAS-GUI. I'm sorry, if this topic is treated in an other post or the documentation and i wasn't able to find it. In this case i would be very grateful for the links to these topics.
I thank you for your time,
merlin
