FreeNAS to CentOS rsync

[JimmyUk]

Hi,

Been using freenas for a few years as an iSCSI target at work to store backups and run VMs etc. Now I need a NAS at home for family photos mainly. So i have a small 4x2TB on a raidz volume on an old(ish) quad core 8GB that I use as a FreeNAS CIFS share where me and other family members dump photos (I have other scripts running that organise them into folders etc etc)

I have a server in a DC that's got a few TB of free space on Dell PE R510 on a RAID6, it's on CentOS. As the power at home is not brilliant i don't want to loose all the data on the freenas due to a power outage, I know a UPS would be a good idea however the thought of having the data synced 'offsite' is more reassuring.

I have a dataset with my photos on. I want to rsync the entire DS to /home/photobackup on my CentOS box.

How do it do this in the rsync tasks? I've found alot of docs about FN to FN and CentOS to FN, but nothing from FN to CentOS

Can anyone give me some pointers etc?

Thanks

Jimmy

 

[cyberjock]

All you need to do is follow the FN to FN and make adjustments as necessary for the CentOS side. It's really that simple. FreeNAS doesn't do anything particularly special and if you are familiar with rsyncing over SSH (or rsync as a module) it should be relatively trivial to do. You might even be able to figure it out of you look at the CentOS to FN instructions and do something that's more like "the reverse". Not many do CentOS around here so you probably won't find much help.