urobe
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Hey everyone,
so far we had one windows server that was running our office software and which also served as a NAS for user files.
So far our backup plan was to backup every night to a NAS (non freenas) using Acronis.
We would keep the last 7 backups, 6 backups from the first of each month, and 5 backups made on the first of January.
This way we had a decently old backup in case someone deleted something and didn't recognize it.
The server software has been moved to the cloud, and is connected over the internet. This leaves only the task of a NAS for the server, which is why we're moving to freenas.
My plan was now to use snapshots to get the file history functionality, I had with the single backups. A second freenas is located in the same network 500 m away on a hill, basically off site, connected with wifi bridge, which will be the backup of the first NAS. To achieve this, I would need to use the replication function, if I understand correctly.
My question is now regarding the snapshots. As I understand it, it is meant to define the office hours during which snapshots are taken. This is, for our needs already a bit much, one snapshot a day would be sufficient. So for hour needs I would rather define a time at night to take one snapshot and make that last 7 days.
To get the monthly "backup" I don't really see a way to keep one snapshot per month, the only option I can think of is, to make a snapshot each Sunday for example and make these last 24 weeks.
For the yearly "backup" I have no idea how to set this up.
In general, I have the question where these snapshots are stored.
I hope this is understandable.
Any help or hint is greatly appreciated.
Tobi
so far we had one windows server that was running our office software and which also served as a NAS for user files.
So far our backup plan was to backup every night to a NAS (non freenas) using Acronis.
We would keep the last 7 backups, 6 backups from the first of each month, and 5 backups made on the first of January.
This way we had a decently old backup in case someone deleted something and didn't recognize it.
The server software has been moved to the cloud, and is connected over the internet. This leaves only the task of a NAS for the server, which is why we're moving to freenas.
My plan was now to use snapshots to get the file history functionality, I had with the single backups. A second freenas is located in the same network 500 m away on a hill, basically off site, connected with wifi bridge, which will be the backup of the first NAS. To achieve this, I would need to use the replication function, if I understand correctly.
My question is now regarding the snapshots. As I understand it, it is meant to define the office hours during which snapshots are taken. This is, for our needs already a bit much, one snapshot a day would be sufficient. So for hour needs I would rather define a time at night to take one snapshot and make that last 7 days.
To get the monthly "backup" I don't really see a way to keep one snapshot per month, the only option I can think of is, to make a snapshot each Sunday for example and make these last 24 weeks.
For the yearly "backup" I have no idea how to set this up.
In general, I have the question where these snapshots are stored.
I hope this is understandable.
Any help or hint is greatly appreciated.
Tobi