Driving myself a little batty...

[Darren Myers]

So im going a little insane.....i have my dev FreeNAS server fired up, everything good....or so i thought, i dug into the documentation a bit more and read not to use 50% or more of a iSCSI volume....well that becomes a semi serious issue if i use x7 4TB hdds in RAIDz3 which gives me 16TB RAW, that in half is where im at now. I currently have 8TB, x4 4TB hdds in RAID10 on my windows server i planned to migrate it all too...Well only using half of my storages across the board is a little aggravating to me...

My original plan was to create x3 RAIDz3 pools of x7 hdds each:
x7 4TB for movies = 16TB RAW
x7 3TB for TV shows = 12TB RAW
x7 2TB for software/ISO's/VM's = 8TB RAW

And serve them all with iscsi...but only using 50% of each....well that sucks lol

So i started investigating other options, such as just mapped drives, which was great until i realized i cant use my current crashplan settings to back it up because its a network drive.. ( i tried hacking around and doing about 5 different tutorials of how to get a mapped drive backed up with crashplan, all failed ). So i then decided i'd try a different approach with another tutorial on creating a .VHDX (64TB limit), well i tried creating it on the mapped drive at first, that failed a few times, so i created the .VHDX file on my local RAID10 and then moved it to the mapped drive, opened disk management and attached the .VHDX file and TA DA! It's there, speeds are up to par where i want them....

Right now i have my FreeNAS server Pool 1( Mapped to Z: ) to my server , from there i have the .VHDX file attached via disk management ( U: Drive ) and it all works, i can back up U: as if it was a harddrive which is what i want.

But i guess my question is....Is there an easier way? I WANT and kind of need my shares/data to show as drives, and not mapped drives...

If you took the time to read this, and you dont know how to help...just comment and tell me im crazy lol :p

 

[SweetAndLow]

You can use crash plan on your nas to backup data. You don't have to backup from the windows box.

 

[Darren Myers]

I saw few video's of it being configured, but i am backing up to the crashplan cloud. I didn't see that in any of the video's i saw on configuring crashplan.

 

[SweetAndLow]

It's the normal application so all the same features exist.

 

[Darren Myers]

I looked at the cofig but i didnt see anywhere to choose to make the FreeNAS server backup to the crashplan cloud, i saw the option to allow computers to backup to it, but not the server to backup to the cloud

 

[Darren Myers]

I might be able to resolve all this, just gonna go post in plugins :P

 

[Jailer]

You'll have to connect to your server using the desktop application and select the backup location there. The instructions on how to do that are listed here in this installation tutorial.