josh.0
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- Jun 7, 2015
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Hey everyone,
I initially built a FreeNAS system by myself for my business following a guide from a Lifehacker article and by watching some YouTube videos. At first, I thought this was something I could handle. I built the system, and it's been serving me well for the past year and a half. But, I've been using it without really understanding how it works. I've read some FAQs and CyberJocks noob slideshow, but I don't really know how to maintain it, or really do anything.
TLDR: I need to know the best way to backup the data on my FreeNAS system to an external USB HDD.
Now, I know that's not the best way. But, for my peace of mind, I would like to do it this week. And, then once that's done, I can do it a better way. Which, will probably end up being a second FreeNAS build.
My current build:
FreeNAS 9.1.1
ZFS formatted, but I don't know what RAID
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v3
MB: Supermicro MBD-X10SAE-O
RAM: 2 x Kingston 8GB ECC DDR3 1600
HDD: 4 x WD Red WD20EFRX 2TB
I would like to backup my data (currently 1TB worth) to a 4tb WD Elements USB 3.0 external HDD.
I found another forum post that seems to be what I would like to do, I just want to make sure it's gonna be good enough for a temporary backup. This is what it said to do:
4tb USB disk attached to the freenas machine.
I created a volume via the web ui, formatted with ZFS, mounted it on /mnt/Backup
Then, I ssh'd to the machine. Now, I'm currently running rsync -aEv --progress /mnt/STORAGE/* /mnt/Backup/
Please let me know if I need to supply more info. Also, when I create the new ZFS volume, will it just be a ZDev?
After successfully backing up, I would also like to figure out the best way to Backup my data for the future since USB HDDs don't sound super reliable.
Thanks for reading.
I initially built a FreeNAS system by myself for my business following a guide from a Lifehacker article and by watching some YouTube videos. At first, I thought this was something I could handle. I built the system, and it's been serving me well for the past year and a half. But, I've been using it without really understanding how it works. I've read some FAQs and CyberJocks noob slideshow, but I don't really know how to maintain it, or really do anything.
TLDR: I need to know the best way to backup the data on my FreeNAS system to an external USB HDD.
Now, I know that's not the best way. But, for my peace of mind, I would like to do it this week. And, then once that's done, I can do it a better way. Which, will probably end up being a second FreeNAS build.
My current build:
FreeNAS 9.1.1
ZFS formatted, but I don't know what RAID
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v3
MB: Supermicro MBD-X10SAE-O
RAM: 2 x Kingston 8GB ECC DDR3 1600
HDD: 4 x WD Red WD20EFRX 2TB
I would like to backup my data (currently 1TB worth) to a 4tb WD Elements USB 3.0 external HDD.
I found another forum post that seems to be what I would like to do, I just want to make sure it's gonna be good enough for a temporary backup. This is what it said to do:
4tb USB disk attached to the freenas machine.
I created a volume via the web ui, formatted with ZFS, mounted it on /mnt/Backup
Then, I ssh'd to the machine. Now, I'm currently running rsync -aEv --progress /mnt/STORAGE/* /mnt/Backup/
Please let me know if I need to supply more info. Also, when I create the new ZFS volume, will it just be a ZDev?
After successfully backing up, I would also like to figure out the best way to Backup my data for the future since USB HDDs don't sound super reliable.
Thanks for reading.