Manyakus
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I am currently building my FreeNas box and my main data will be stored in 6x 3TB WD Red in RaidZ2 for a total space of 12 TB.
I currently have 4TB of Data so I think my 12 TB capacity will last at least for a good 3-4 years.
However I am not sure what would be my best backup strategy.
My data is important to me but I have some limitation/consideration:
I need some help and guidance. I have been thinking about it for too long and I am stuck.
Thank!
I currently have 4TB of Data so I think my 12 TB capacity will last at least for a good 3-4 years.
However I am not sure what would be my best backup strategy.
My data is important to me but I have some limitation/consideration:
- I will not upload anything to the cloud. I don't trust big corporation and never will do. Beside that it would at least be 50$-100$/month for 4TB cloud backup.
- For the time being, building another FreeNAS to do ZFS Send/Receive (Replication) is not in my budget. Definitely in 3-4 years when I will retire my actual FreeNas gear and use it as a secondary FreeNas.
- Backup is to be done once a week, during night time.
- I don't care about Backup speed, (the argument of using Replication).
- I mostly care about data integrity and being able to see the incremental backup if needed to go back in time.
- My FreeNas is open to the internet, and there will be a possibility that I get Ransomwared, so I think having Snapshot/Replication will be a good option?
- Make another pool in my actual FreeNas and do snapshot/replication to it. I have enough bays for that. But then again making a backup on the same machine is not a backup, but it would be better than nothing?
- Backup my data to an external drive with esata connection, this would need one big disk drive and FreeNas would see that as a single disk? I would then be able to use replication? Just need to mount and unmount it everytime?
- Same as option #2 but with multiple drives and FreeNas will create a pool that I can mount and unmount every time I want to do Replication?
- I have 2x HDD enclosures, each one of them can hold 2 disk drives, it is basically a DAS with Raid 0/1 capability. They have 1x eSata connection from the back but it is a port multiplier and I think this is a no no for FreeNas?
- Buy another NAS system like Synology/QNAP and just use a regular Backup software that will backup my Data on a SMB file sharing level?
I need some help and guidance. I have been thinking about it for too long and I am stuck.
Thank!