Okay, so I'm getting a little paranoid about my backups since I lost some data recently, and I'd love to hear community feedback on this.
My new FreeNAS build is a FreeNAS Mini, with 4x WD Red 4tb 3.5" drives in RAID Z, along with 2x WD Red 1tb 2.5" drives also in the same box, doing nightly replications of important data.
However, that's probably not enough as it's all in one place (I lost data before by being dumb and doing a dumb thing; that's the main thing I need to protect against, myself).
Accordingly, I was going to set up an ESXi box using a second box running ESXi. Technically, it's another FreeNAS Mini, but obviously running ESXi instead as it has other functions. It'll have 2x WD Red 3tb 3.5" drives, along with a 2.5" 120gb SSD I have laying around, and it will run a variety of OS's.
Now, I know there are big red Cyberjock-enforced recommendations about not running FreeNAS inside a virtual environment for any reason except education, experimentation, testing, or suicide. Accordingly, what should I run? What's the best thing for FreeNAS to automatically back up to? (these backups would probably be done by RSync or similar technology).
Is FreeNAS safe to run virtualised if all it's doing is backing up nightly copies, or should I use something else? Any recommendations? I'd prefer something very simple if possible.
Any suggestions welcome!
My new FreeNAS build is a FreeNAS Mini, with 4x WD Red 4tb 3.5" drives in RAID Z, along with 2x WD Red 1tb 2.5" drives also in the same box, doing nightly replications of important data.
However, that's probably not enough as it's all in one place (I lost data before by being dumb and doing a dumb thing; that's the main thing I need to protect against, myself).
Accordingly, I was going to set up an ESXi box using a second box running ESXi. Technically, it's another FreeNAS Mini, but obviously running ESXi instead as it has other functions. It'll have 2x WD Red 3tb 3.5" drives, along with a 2.5" 120gb SSD I have laying around, and it will run a variety of OS's.
Now, I know there are big red Cyberjock-enforced recommendations about not running FreeNAS inside a virtual environment for any reason except education, experimentation, testing, or suicide. Accordingly, what should I run? What's the best thing for FreeNAS to automatically back up to? (these backups would probably be done by RSync or similar technology).
Is FreeNAS safe to run virtualised if all it's doing is backing up nightly copies, or should I use something else? Any recommendations? I'd prefer something very simple if possible.
Any suggestions welcome!