seanthegeek
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- Joined
- Nov 13, 2023
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Hi Everyone,
I'm learning about TrueNAS. I currently have a VM running in VirtualBox on a Windows system that has BitLocker enabled. To create an occasional encrypted backup, I shut the VM down, create a 7z archive of the disk and VM configuration file, encrypt the archive with GPG, then upload the encrypted archive to a cloud storage provider.
At first, I thought I could reduce my number of systems on my network by running the VM on a NAS, but after reading through the documentation, it looks like the whole zvol itself is used as a virtual disk, rather than storing a .vdi/.vmdk/.qcow2 disk image file inside the zvol? I could use rclone to back up encrypted copies of the actual files inside the zvol to a cloud storage provider, but that solution isn't very portable compared to a normal VM disk image, plus the compression feature of rclone is documented as experimental.
It sounds like I might be better off having TrueNAS for storing KVM or ESXi disk images that are used by a separate KVM or ESXi server for virtualization?
I'm learning about TrueNAS. I currently have a VM running in VirtualBox on a Windows system that has BitLocker enabled. To create an occasional encrypted backup, I shut the VM down, create a 7z archive of the disk and VM configuration file, encrypt the archive with GPG, then upload the encrypted archive to a cloud storage provider.
At first, I thought I could reduce my number of systems on my network by running the VM on a NAS, but after reading through the documentation, it looks like the whole zvol itself is used as a virtual disk, rather than storing a .vdi/.vmdk/.qcow2 disk image file inside the zvol? I could use rclone to back up encrypted copies of the actual files inside the zvol to a cloud storage provider, but that solution isn't very portable compared to a normal VM disk image, plus the compression feature of rclone is documented as experimental.
It sounds like I might be better off having TrueNAS for storing KVM or ESXi disk images that are used by a separate KVM or ESXi server for virtualization?