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I am setting up FreeNAS for my home setup. I am using FreeNAS with vmware. I want to setup a central File Server for all my data.
Here is my setup:
For FreeNAS:
- I created vdev1 with 1 TB of usable space for virtual machines for vmware. I am sharing that out using NFS and adding that as a datastore on vmware.
- I created another vdev2 with 14 TB of usable space for my data.
For VMWare:
On each VMWare host I added the vdev1 NFS share as a datastore. I am using that to store virtual machines.
File Server Option 1:
Setup vdev2 as CIFS and integrate FreeNAS with Active Directory. This will be fine and I will be able to do permissions on each directory. But then how to I backup CIFS share?
File Server Option 2:
Setup vdev2 as NFS and add that as a second datastore on vmware hosts. Then create a Windows File Server virtual machine in vmware and add "second datastore" as second hard drive for it. Using this method I can use number of backup programs to backup.
Pros and Cons to each options:
Option 1:
Pros: Each file is an individual file on the FreeNAS server so when FreeNAS does scrubs each file is independent. If it detects any errors it will only effect those files and all the rest will be ok.
Cons: How do I backup CIFS share?
Option 2:
Pros: Easier to backup since all the data is local to the Windows File Server.
Cons: All my data is one big .vmdk file on vdev2. So when FreeNAS does scrubs it will only have 1 huge file. So if it detects any errors it can potentially corrupt/destroy all my data.
What option is better? Are there any backup solution to CIFS?
I hope this is the correct section to ask this question. If not please direct me to the correct section.
I am setting up FreeNAS for my home setup. I am using FreeNAS with vmware. I want to setup a central File Server for all my data.
Here is my setup:
For FreeNAS:
- I created vdev1 with 1 TB of usable space for virtual machines for vmware. I am sharing that out using NFS and adding that as a datastore on vmware.
- I created another vdev2 with 14 TB of usable space for my data.
For VMWare:
On each VMWare host I added the vdev1 NFS share as a datastore. I am using that to store virtual machines.
File Server Option 1:
Setup vdev2 as CIFS and integrate FreeNAS with Active Directory. This will be fine and I will be able to do permissions on each directory. But then how to I backup CIFS share?
File Server Option 2:
Setup vdev2 as NFS and add that as a second datastore on vmware hosts. Then create a Windows File Server virtual machine in vmware and add "second datastore" as second hard drive for it. Using this method I can use number of backup programs to backup.
Pros and Cons to each options:
Option 1:
Pros: Each file is an individual file on the FreeNAS server so when FreeNAS does scrubs each file is independent. If it detects any errors it will only effect those files and all the rest will be ok.
Cons: How do I backup CIFS share?
Option 2:
Pros: Easier to backup since all the data is local to the Windows File Server.
Cons: All my data is one big .vmdk file on vdev2. So when FreeNAS does scrubs it will only have 1 huge file. So if it detects any errors it can potentially corrupt/destroy all my data.
What option is better? Are there any backup solution to CIFS?