Hi Guys,
I am new to FreeNAS and I have been reading a lot of forum posts over the last few days trying to find answers to my questions before I ask in a post and I have learned a lot. I plan on using my Dell Poweredge T300 for a FreeNAS server for some home user features.
I intend to setup a basic Windows Share to backup all my pictures, music, and other files from Windows to FreeNAS. I would also like to experiment with Owncloud and MineOS plugins as well as some of the other plugins.
Here is where my question comes into place, I am an IT consultant and I am used to doing things on the Windows side. I know things will be different with FreeNAS as I have read many times. Can someone confirm for me the way to backup my data if it is stored on FreeNAS. What I am used to seeing is having a server and backing up all that data to either a NAS or external USB drives using software. Then rotating out the drives so you always have a current backup and store a weeks worth of backups.
If I use FreeNAS as a backup source for my PC that would be fine because I have the files stored on my PC and I am backing them up to another location. In the event of a PC crash or FreeNAS crash all my files would be in two locations, My PC and FreeNAS. Now, if I start storing data only on my FreeNAS server how does that get backed up? I read that USB devices are not recommended and I read that you can setup CrashPlan to backup you data to the cloud. I am not a fan of cloud based backups so is there an option to backup all data stored on FreeNAS to external drive or local USB drive somehow? Or, is that not a recommended solution? Is CrashPlan my only option?
If not, then how would you backup your data if you were going to use FreeNAS to setup your own cloud, FTP server, or media server and store the files on the FreeNAS drives? I realize there are snapshot options with FreeNAS but unless you move them to an external source if FreeNAS fails you loose the snapshots as well.
If something like this has been answered and I missed it on the forum please point me in the right direction and I apologize.
Also I have FreeNAS setup with two spare 500GB hard drives I had extra in a mirrored array. I am just testing with this and trying to familiarize myself with FreeNAS while I deiced what drives to buy for my server.
I am new to FreeNAS and I have been reading a lot of forum posts over the last few days trying to find answers to my questions before I ask in a post and I have learned a lot. I plan on using my Dell Poweredge T300 for a FreeNAS server for some home user features.
I intend to setup a basic Windows Share to backup all my pictures, music, and other files from Windows to FreeNAS. I would also like to experiment with Owncloud and MineOS plugins as well as some of the other plugins.
Here is where my question comes into place, I am an IT consultant and I am used to doing things on the Windows side. I know things will be different with FreeNAS as I have read many times. Can someone confirm for me the way to backup my data if it is stored on FreeNAS. What I am used to seeing is having a server and backing up all that data to either a NAS or external USB drives using software. Then rotating out the drives so you always have a current backup and store a weeks worth of backups.
If I use FreeNAS as a backup source for my PC that would be fine because I have the files stored on my PC and I am backing them up to another location. In the event of a PC crash or FreeNAS crash all my files would be in two locations, My PC and FreeNAS. Now, if I start storing data only on my FreeNAS server how does that get backed up? I read that USB devices are not recommended and I read that you can setup CrashPlan to backup you data to the cloud. I am not a fan of cloud based backups so is there an option to backup all data stored on FreeNAS to external drive or local USB drive somehow? Or, is that not a recommended solution? Is CrashPlan my only option?
If not, then how would you backup your data if you were going to use FreeNAS to setup your own cloud, FTP server, or media server and store the files on the FreeNAS drives? I realize there are snapshot options with FreeNAS but unless you move them to an external source if FreeNAS fails you loose the snapshots as well.
If something like this has been answered and I missed it on the forum please point me in the right direction and I apologize.
Also I have FreeNAS setup with two spare 500GB hard drives I had extra in a mirrored array. I am just testing with this and trying to familiarize myself with FreeNAS while I deiced what drives to buy for my server.