Hi Guys,
I'm extremely impressed and satisfied with FreeNAS and the jail concept. I have invested almost a month to get many web services up and running on my FreeNAS server such as Plex, Next Cloud, Sickrage, Couchpotato, Nginx Reverse Proxy, Subsonic, Rtorrent and few other services. All of this are sitting under one main jails dataset and they have their own sub data set under the main one. While I trust on the reliability of ZFS, Im sure backing up all these is a wise decision. At this moment, I have one of my old Buffalo Link Station NAS which has enough storage to be used for backup of all my jails. It happens to also support RSync so it will go well with Freenas.
Now my major concern is, file permission/ownership of assets under each and every individual jails. Example plex has its own user/group, sickrage its own etc etc. Now, when I rsync all these to the other NAS, is there anyway possible to maintain the file permission integrity, so that in case of any catastrophic failure of my FreeNAS storage, I can just reverse the rsync and restore back all my jails data. Has anyone been able to do such thing? And in principal can these work?
I'm extremely impressed and satisfied with FreeNAS and the jail concept. I have invested almost a month to get many web services up and running on my FreeNAS server such as Plex, Next Cloud, Sickrage, Couchpotato, Nginx Reverse Proxy, Subsonic, Rtorrent and few other services. All of this are sitting under one main jails dataset and they have their own sub data set under the main one. While I trust on the reliability of ZFS, Im sure backing up all these is a wise decision. At this moment, I have one of my old Buffalo Link Station NAS which has enough storage to be used for backup of all my jails. It happens to also support RSync so it will go well with Freenas.
Now my major concern is, file permission/ownership of assets under each and every individual jails. Example plex has its own user/group, sickrage its own etc etc. Now, when I rsync all these to the other NAS, is there anyway possible to maintain the file permission integrity, so that in case of any catastrophic failure of my FreeNAS storage, I can just reverse the rsync and restore back all my jails data. Has anyone been able to do such thing? And in principal can these work?