best way to do backups without using replication?

[ykhodo]

As of 11.2, my system has been kernel panicking when using replication for local backups (there are already tickets for this).

What would be a good alternative to backing up to a disk plugged in via ESATA? I was considering using restic in a jail, but there are issues mounting jails inside of a jail, so I would be missing things in my backup.

Thank you

 

[JohnDigital]

If the esata drive is installed and visible as a ZFS drive from the freenas host, just use rsync -avvh --progress /mnt/POOL /mnt/ESATA/

I also frequently use rsync over ssh (lan) although for not large amounts of files, but I think it would work if you have a network destination you could use. People knock rsync alot since zfs replication, but I prefer using it even now, it just works and comes in every box of *nix

 

[ykhodo]

If the esata drive is installed and visible as a ZFS drive from the freenas host, just use rsync -avvh --progress /mnt/POOL /mnt/ESATA/

I also frequently use rsync over ssh (lan) although for not large amounts of files, but I think it would work if you have a network destination you could use. People knock rsync a lot since zfs replication, but I prefer using it even now, it just works and comes in every box of *nix

I got caught up in all of the fancy tools, when a simple rsync works. I created a cron job for now.

I would have liked to use incremental backups that restic offers, but this will do nicely as a stop gap until replication is fixed.

 

[ykhodo]

Out of curiousity, if I wanted to do cloud backups using restic, how would I mount all jails inside of a jail? Or could I get away with backing up the jail's storage, fstab, and config.json?

 

[JohnDigital]

rsync is MY king of incremental backups. No jail needed. Never used restic, but you could get clever in the restic fstab to get done what you want.