zetabax
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- Jan 11, 2021
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Hi there,
Creating an off-line backup of all your data is a ginormous pain with external drives. Ideally I'd like to find a piece of software that treats external USB drives as if they were LTO tapes but until that day comes (if ever) I'd like to try the following and wanted to see if anyone can validate my approach. This is for a home environment so I'm backing up photos, movies, music, etc. so my RPO / RTOs are 'whenever I get around to it' but the data must be there / recoverable.
1. Install TrueNas core onto either an old PC (on a USB stick) or VM (I have an ESXi box)
2. Connect a bunch of external hard drives to this instance of TrueNas and create a striped pool (RAID 0)
3. Create a replication task to copy all the data from my primary FreeNas box onto this hodgepodge of external storage
4. Once backup is complete, take the USB boot drive (or backup the VM) along with all the external hard drives and lock them up in a fireproof safe.
I realize creating a pool of USB HDDs isn't exactly safe or something you'd want to run long term but for the purposes of backup and recovery, does it seem reasonable?
Creating an off-line backup of all your data is a ginormous pain with external drives. Ideally I'd like to find a piece of software that treats external USB drives as if they were LTO tapes but until that day comes (if ever) I'd like to try the following and wanted to see if anyone can validate my approach. This is for a home environment so I'm backing up photos, movies, music, etc. so my RPO / RTOs are 'whenever I get around to it' but the data must be there / recoverable.
1. Install TrueNas core onto either an old PC (on a USB stick) or VM (I have an ESXi box)
2. Connect a bunch of external hard drives to this instance of TrueNas and create a striped pool (RAID 0)
3. Create a replication task to copy all the data from my primary FreeNas box onto this hodgepodge of external storage
4. Once backup is complete, take the USB boot drive (or backup the VM) along with all the external hard drives and lock them up in a fireproof safe.
I realize creating a pool of USB HDDs isn't exactly safe or something you'd want to run long term but for the purposes of backup and recovery, does it seem reasonable?