Hi All,
I work in a small medical engineering business that needed a new file server and have setup my own freenas box at home about 2 years ago so suggested we use freenas and since I had some experience of it. I am the one setting it up, no issue there. Its 2x new 4tb ironwolf pro drives mirrored, doing snapshots every night running off a 120gb ssd (want to look into if I can use the leftover free space on this boot drive to do file cashing for speed up of access) this is then in an old hp z200 xeon x3450 with 8gb ecc ram, plenty for our usage. My question is, what is the best backup and cloud plugins to use for my situation? I will quickly out line our workflow and how we operate and what I hope to achieve using the freenas server.
There is an office of up to 6 people accessing files (largely ms office, mostly excel and cad drawings/assembly's). There is not a lot of data to be stored (currently 450gb) and it probably won't get to 1tb for the next 10 years.
Then there are 5 guys in the field who currently use an excel based quote system that is on knowhow cloud but they have local copy of said quote system as they regularly have to work offline which then gets updated automaticity to the cloud when online, we also keep a copy of their up to date cloud data here.
I want use freenas with a with one of the cloud plugins instead of the knowhow cloud system. It would need to also have a windows interface for their laptops and would be nice to have an android & ios interface for uploading pictures etc would be useful. Would need to have a version system so we could keep say 10 versions of critical files stretching back a month or 2 - similar to google drive versions for example. Would like multiple users 7+ ideal, premium is fine as long as it's not too expensive. Was looking at asigura. SIde note: installed it to try it out, installed fine but cant access management interface. Tried other plugins all the same, I need to investigate a bit more but any pointers welcome. The simpler the system the better as some of the office and field users have very little it skills. Needs to automatically sync when they come back online as cant trust they will upload themselves. The cloud element is good for the file syncing and if the server ever goes down here in the office we can then use the web portal to get up to date files back.
Next would also want a simple backup system on another plugin (want to use a different system so not relying on 1 place only) that would automatically backup the nas every evening when its not in use to have an archive copy was thinking backblaze for this.
I have no experience of any of the above plugins/programs or company's that offer these services so any user experience similar to what I am trying to achieve would be great or even if I am looking at it in the wrong way all advice welcome.
Thanks
I work in a small medical engineering business that needed a new file server and have setup my own freenas box at home about 2 years ago so suggested we use freenas and since I had some experience of it. I am the one setting it up, no issue there. Its 2x new 4tb ironwolf pro drives mirrored, doing snapshots every night running off a 120gb ssd (want to look into if I can use the leftover free space on this boot drive to do file cashing for speed up of access) this is then in an old hp z200 xeon x3450 with 8gb ecc ram, plenty for our usage. My question is, what is the best backup and cloud plugins to use for my situation? I will quickly out line our workflow and how we operate and what I hope to achieve using the freenas server.
There is an office of up to 6 people accessing files (largely ms office, mostly excel and cad drawings/assembly's). There is not a lot of data to be stored (currently 450gb) and it probably won't get to 1tb for the next 10 years.
Then there are 5 guys in the field who currently use an excel based quote system that is on knowhow cloud but they have local copy of said quote system as they regularly have to work offline which then gets updated automaticity to the cloud when online, we also keep a copy of their up to date cloud data here.
I want use freenas with a with one of the cloud plugins instead of the knowhow cloud system. It would need to also have a windows interface for their laptops and would be nice to have an android & ios interface for uploading pictures etc would be useful. Would need to have a version system so we could keep say 10 versions of critical files stretching back a month or 2 - similar to google drive versions for example. Would like multiple users 7+ ideal, premium is fine as long as it's not too expensive. Was looking at asigura. SIde note: installed it to try it out, installed fine but cant access management interface. Tried other plugins all the same, I need to investigate a bit more but any pointers welcome. The simpler the system the better as some of the office and field users have very little it skills. Needs to automatically sync when they come back online as cant trust they will upload themselves. The cloud element is good for the file syncing and if the server ever goes down here in the office we can then use the web portal to get up to date files back.
Next would also want a simple backup system on another plugin (want to use a different system so not relying on 1 place only) that would automatically backup the nas every evening when its not in use to have an archive copy was thinking backblaze for this.
I have no experience of any of the above plugins/programs or company's that offer these services so any user experience similar to what I am trying to achieve would be great or even if I am looking at it in the wrong way all advice welcome.
Thanks