Hello everyone. First post. I want to do something seemingly unique with FreeNAS.
My company is using a managed services provider and the storage is rather expensive, about $0.15/GB. We currently back up about 28 TB of data to this storage, so as you can understand, this is quite expensive. We're currently using a VMWare ESXi environment with Veeam Backup And Replication. The backup repository is currently a Windows 2012R2 server with large VMDK's attached to it.
So, I've been tasked with taking all of our Veeam repositories and storing them directly in the cloud instead of having them on local storage. How can I use FreeNAS running in a virtual machine, to act as a kind of a "proxy" which translates SMB and NFS into S3 storage? Cloud Sync seems like a great idea, but it looks like we'd have to continue storing all of the data on the local, expensive disk.
Anyway, if any of you have an idea as to how I can accomplish this, please let me know. I've also looked at SoftNAS and Open Dedup, both of which seem to do this, but SoftNAS and Open DeDup only support Amazon S3 and not BackBlaze. Also Amazon already provides a storage gateway for S3, which makes this redundant, so I'd be using it more for BackBlaze B2.
My company is using a managed services provider and the storage is rather expensive, about $0.15/GB. We currently back up about 28 TB of data to this storage, so as you can understand, this is quite expensive. We're currently using a VMWare ESXi environment with Veeam Backup And Replication. The backup repository is currently a Windows 2012R2 server with large VMDK's attached to it.
So, I've been tasked with taking all of our Veeam repositories and storing them directly in the cloud instead of having them on local storage. How can I use FreeNAS running in a virtual machine, to act as a kind of a "proxy" which translates SMB and NFS into S3 storage? Cloud Sync seems like a great idea, but it looks like we'd have to continue storing all of the data on the local, expensive disk.
Anyway, if any of you have an idea as to how I can accomplish this, please let me know. I've also looked at SoftNAS and Open Dedup, both of which seem to do this, but SoftNAS and Open DeDup only support Amazon S3 and not BackBlaze. Also Amazon already provides a storage gateway for S3, which makes this redundant, so I'd be using it more for BackBlaze B2.