I am needing a storage device to store our backup data on. The application I will be using is ARCserv which does a backup and then just keeps that original full and adds on the incrementals to make new fulls that will be backed up to tape on a weekly basis. Since it will be using the original...

This script will backup, restore and migrate a Wordpress install to another site. Although all the steps can be done manually or with a plugin it's nice to have it packaged in a neat package. You can create a cron job in the GUI to automatically backup your site. It integrates well with Basil...

Hey everyone, just enabled cloud sync to a new backblaze b2 subscription. I noticed that after a couple days the "bucket" on backblaze was much larger than the parent dataset that it was supposed to backup. I discovered that this is due to my iocage Plex jail's external storage of ~3TB of...

Hey again people. so i've been tasked with trying to aquire knowledge about backups and a good way to do a full backup of all of our data. the plan is to run freenas on the backup and equip it with raid 6 and 34TB storage with the seagate enterprice v5. i've researched a little and heard of...

Hi We have configured with cinder backup service and tested working. when am checking with cinder incremental backup I found the first time I can take the backup of the instance which is in use. When I am trying second-time backup getting failed due to FreeNAS API failed unknown reason. Can...

Hi All, We are using FreeNAS for our Serverpack35 devices. We need your help and support to clarify some doubts. Can we configure GUI for multiple users and give respective role and permission to them? How to automate the FreeNAS installation and Configuration? How to take a backup of FreeNAS...

Hello ix and freenas community! I have been tasked with building a backup storage solution for my family. that includes only devices that connect to the local network. they run linux, android and sadly windows. For that I bought a helios4 and two 4TB Toshiba drives. Because they looked so nice...

Hello. Now I'am designing datastore infrastructure for virtual environment. Planning to use one FN as the main DS, and second one as backup. Backup is replicated by snapshots from the main. The idea is in case disaster on primary DS instantly promote backup to the primary simply by changing it's...

Hello everyone, I just recently setup a new Freenas server, and I have already transferred all files from my old Unraid server to Freenas. Now I want to use the old Unraid server as a back-up to my main Freenas server using Rsync. I understand that it is really easy to setup between two Freenas...

Hello, I've done some research but cannot seem to find an exact answer. I have started using FreeNAS as my primary storage target for my VMWare lab, but not that ive done this i'm trying to determine my best method of for backup in case of disaster recovery. I see I can configure Azure Blog as...

I have setup a nightly config backup and set it up to sync to my personal OneDrive so I can easily access the config should something happen and I need to restore. I have had it twice now that the initial test backup works, but then it stops. I check it in a few days and it hasn't backed...

Hi, if possible create some task or cron to copy my data from my folder on FreeNAS to NFS Folder on ReadyNAS. Only process it copy from FreeNAS to ReadyNAS (backup data) Also if possible on FreeNAS with some app or plugins. Backup to usb drive as named or like vol01, vol02 from specific...

A script to run rclone on the FreeNAS server to backup NAS data to Backblaze B2 cloud storage. Can easily be adapted for other cloud providers. The script is available from my GitHub site. Script was adapted from the one posted in the FreeNAS community forums by Martin Aspeli...

I accidentally delete all my jails/plugins. I have backup of everything and I have access to the files. My question is: how do I make them appear again in the system (and in the GUI)? Do I need to create them all, one by one, and then restore the files? Or is there a way to just restore them...

Hello Everybody, First I hope I'm in the right sub-thread, if not please guide to the right one. I'm having a huge problem and don't know what to do. Today I started my FreeNAS Machine because I wanted to move my files to my new FreeNAS Machine which I have recently installed but there was a...

So for the last few months I've been getting those dreaded emails from CrashPlan Pro telling me nothing is getting backed up but I've been busy. I knew the PC (old desktop I had running for the backup instance) had some issues and just hadn't gotten around to it. Today I put up another...

Hello everybody, I'm about to change from Synology to freeNAS. The only thing that keeps me back from migrating is, that i havent found a good and free or cheap solution to make a real time backup of files from a Win10 client. Something like DSM Cloud backup would be great. Does anyone know...

v11.2 - U3 on Primary, U4 on Backup. We have 2 units. "Primary" and "Backup", the Primary runs normally and Backup takes in snapshots from Primary via Replication Tasks. We want to use B2 for our offsite backup/DR. With that in mind, am I best served by running the Cloud Sync on Primary...

v11.2 - U3 on Primary, U4 on Backup. We have 2 units. "Primary" and "Backup", the Primary runs normally and Backup takes in snapshots from Primary via Replication Tasks. We want to use B2 for our offsite backup/DR. With that in mind, am I best served by running the Cloud Sync on Primary...

Hi, I need help to backup esxistore and then send it over to backup001. zfs snapshot -r Store2/EsxiStore@Snap001 zfs send -Rv -i Store2/EsxiStore@Snap001 | zfs receive -F BACKUP01 I get this error ```log root@freenas:/mnt # zfs send -Rv -i Store2/EsxiStore@Snap001 | zfs receive -F...

Would appreciate a bit of help here please. Have set up a daily task to sync 19,000 files with Backblaze B2 across a couple of buckets. Unfortunately, I'm getting a "Class C Transactions Cap Reached 100%" error message emailed to me from Backblaze every day 8mins after the task kicks off...

So, newby here. 1) I have 2 4tb WD Red that show as 7 tb max, i understand that ZFS takes up some space and that 4tb isn't REALLY 4tb. But almost 500 gb less per disk? 2) I have created this pool 1.5 years ago but after that didn't have time to do anything with it, now i'm trying to figure out...

Hello, I have a laptop and would like to backup all my files on it while preserving permissions, ACLs and groups. Biggest (main) problem is that you need a 1-to-1 mapping of users/groups on FreeNAS, which is not possible for me (there are just so many users, I'd need a script to automate it)...

Hello! I currently have 3 Windows 10 Drives, 1 Ubuntu Drive and 2 Android phones that I'd like to backup. I prepared a 3TB HDD on FreeNAS that's fully dedicated for this purpose. Ideally, FreeNAS would incrementally backup the stuff from the other PCs in its own datasets. Or (maybe better)...

Hi guys, me again, i need an advice, what is the best option to auto backup like 7 Windows pc's on a FreeNAS Server (running 11.2), i just install the backup pc plugin and bru server, but i dont know how to configure it, so i decide to use a program on each PC to do the backup on the NAS, what...

Hello! My setup is the following: 1 vdev with 3 HDDs, all 3 mirror of each other (so 3 x 3TB HDD, total available space = 3TB). 2 Drives are just going to spin all the time, mirror of each other, that's the redundancy. The 3rd drive, I'll plug it in once every now and then (say: once per month)...

Hello Everyone, I am the Systems Administrator here for a medium sized manufacturing company. We currently have 2 FreeNAS 2U certified systems in different physical locations to protect against disaster scenarios. Both systems host 2 ZVols over iSCSI to 1 VM Host each. Lets call these sites...

I've mentioned this at least once before in another post and either got the feeling nobody else felt like this was an issue or they didn't quite appreciate the implication so thought I'll make a specific post about it so you guys can either put my mind at rest or we can conclude this is an issue...

Hello All, I have a Freenas server (home built Intel Celeron CPU G465 @ 1.90GHz with 4GB of RAM (works fine!!) running FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201412090314) I use the server for a variety of things but mostly as a home cloud storage system. It hosts things like family photos, various software...

Hello All, With the story we all know about crashplan ..... (i will not elaborate on that)!! but i have to admit it was doing exactly what i want :( for cheap I am looking since few month a good replacement solution. My fleet is : NAS for Backup Freenas 11.2 Client (about 16 total): MAC...

Hallo! In meinem ersten Thread direkt eine bitte um Hilfe.. Ich hoffe das ist okay.. Nach viel Recherche und Rückschlägen läuft nun mein FreeNAS-System wie gewünscht. Da Ich aktuell kein Geld für ein 2. FreeNAS habe, bleibt mir erstmal nur, das System anders zu sichern. Daher will ich mit den...

Hi All, How do you guys go about setting up a freenas server to be used as production in case the main server fails? I am thinking maybe using replication in the first place, Ideally I would like something with minimal changes required so everyone would not notice I change the server. And...

OK. So I wanna build an offiste PC with FreeNAS. Thing is, I have this old PC at home collecting dust, and I'd like to use it. I'd like to know if anyone can tell me if this config will work. Here's my setup (ideally): Acer Aspire X1200 AMD Athlon64x2 (AM2 socket) 3Gb DDR2-800 RAM (would be...

Hello All: I have a back up configured on my Windows 10 Pro laptop which pumps data to a folder on a freenas system. However, I see duplicates of several (not all) files being created. A screen shot is also uploaded. Can someone guide as to why this is happening and what can be done to stop /...

I am running FreeNAS 11 and am having trouble configuring a cron job rsync back up of an entire Volume (/mnt/NAS1) to a folder on another volume (/mnt/NAS2/BackUp). Originally the script was only backing up a folder on NAS1 but now i wish to mirror the entire volume on a schedule. Here is the...

Hello, I just moved over to 11.2 to test out encryption with the cloud sync feature for B2. I am trying to backup almost the entire data set and receive the below error message. Where do I go about increasing the chunk-size? Failed to sync: "XXXXX.bin" too big (4399120252960 bytes) makes too...

Hi, Please be so kind and help me with creating a periodic backup. Could You explain me how to do a periodic backup with two different ways? local storages: /mnt/data - samba shares /mnt/backup - backups from data Daily: Snapshot/Bachup from "data" pool to "backup" pool: /mnt/data ->...

Hi. This week, I've been lucky(?!) enough that, despite two drive failures in my ZFS pool, I'm managing to save most of the data. I've brought a couple of 8Tb drives and am about half way through copying my data over to the new drives. To save anything embarrassing in future, I want to make...

I have a Freenas server I've been running. I was backing it up with Acronis on a Windows Machine (I know, I know). I have spent the day with rsync going line by line through all the docs and Internet information and I am about to give up. This is a fresh backup, so the disks in the other...

So I created a cronjob for backing up my SMB to a external usb drive (command: rsync -zvr /mnt/files /mnt/Backup/ --delete-after) but I want it to delete the files which were deleted on the SMB only after 3 weeks on the backup drive, not immediately (as in the current command), but I don't know...

Hi All, I'm still learning my way round FreeNAS in my test VM. I'm currently making sure I know what to do if i have to recover the system from some kind of failure. Reading the forum, I'm aware that FreeNAS makes an automatic backup of the config db on the system dataset every morning at...

Hi All, I'm in the process of testing FreeNAS as an alternative to my WHS2011 - I've reached the 2TB limit on it and need something to replace it. This is for a home system for photos, music, films, ISOs, etc, and some data. My current WHS setup is effectively: 2 x 2TB disks in mirror (using...

JottaCloud has a unlimited storage plan for $10 a month and they support FreeBSD, I thought it would be perfect on FreeNAS. I have been looking for a backup solution on FreeNAS for ages, can't believe I missed this one. Its pretty easy to setup as well. Thanks to jinie on github for the rcscript...

I have installed Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Sabnzbd and Tautulli in separate iocage jails as per this Resource. I want to have an easy way to install the apps in a separate jail as per the Resource link, as well as an easy way to backup and restore the separate data directories for them. You have...

So, I want to backup my phone and laptop/pc to freenas. I want to be able to select what I want to backup, then do a full backup and after that only the files I changed. My mobile has about 100gb in use as of right now (laptop and pc way more) and it's just not do-able to backup 100gb EVERY day...

Hi, I have a backup volume (BackUp01 :- single 1TB disk) that I wanted just to keep files as a backup. What is the best way to secure this drive? I was thinking if there is a way to make it detached/offline when not in used. Is this at all possible ? Thanks in advance.

I just set up a new replication server, and have been testing it. My main server and this are both using 11.1-U5, both enterprise hardware, and all features enabled. I ran zfs send on the main server and zfs receive on the new backup server, and deliberately killed the process after a while to...

Is there a way I can make a local replication task output encrypted data. Meaning that the data on the beta(destination) freenas computer would be encrypted so I could store the beta data anywhere. From the Manual it dose not look like this possible with the stock tools. I looked at rclone...

I am running a FreeNAS server (FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE) on a HP Proliant Microserver Gen 10 (8GB ECC-RAM, Intel NIC, 4TB mirrored WD Red disks) but I am finding pretty slow performances during Time Machine backups through wi-fi. I have tried to test the connection speed using iPerf3 and it's enough...

Hello, I have a pool on a general file server with 6 x 2TB drives configured in a three-group mirror that are very old. The system, for all intents and purposes, appears to be working normally. The pool does not report as degraded. However, I have been trying to move certain files using rsync...