MuzikManiak
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I have been reading through the forms and have not found what I'm looking for. If it has been discussed already then I apologize in advance.
I have a goal in mind that I'm trying to accomplish. I'm really trying to have fewer machines running all the time and combine them onto one server. I choose FreeNAS for this and so far has exceeded my expectations. I have combined my WebServers in Jails, File Storage, and Plex onto FreeNAS at this point. One thing I want to do is to have a Cold Storage Drive mounted inside the Server case for dumping a backup to monthly or so instead of having another NAS type device running on my network. Seems like a waist of energy and resources when I should be able to set it all up on the FreeNAS server. I need a Windows formatted drive that encase of a server failure I can remove and place into my Desktop for work related materials that I need. No work, no paycheck. Down time is crucial.
Mounting the drive with NTFS is no problem. The problem I am having is using the FreeNAS gui to do all the work. I have tried using Tasks>Rsync Tasks to accomplish this and its just not going as planned. I have tried everything I can think of.
The solution that I have ended up with is the following: I wrote a bash script to mount if not mounted and rsync data to the drive. Pretty simple but not sure if there is a better way. Here is an example of the bash script I came up with and I will use a Cron job to que the script once ever so often and allow the large backup drive to spin down when its not copying data. This is just an example
Basically checking the mount location to see if the backup directory is there, if not mount the drive then copy and it does work.
If anyone has a better solution please let me know. Appreciate it.
I have a goal in mind that I'm trying to accomplish. I'm really trying to have fewer machines running all the time and combine them onto one server. I choose FreeNAS for this and so far has exceeded my expectations. I have combined my WebServers in Jails, File Storage, and Plex onto FreeNAS at this point. One thing I want to do is to have a Cold Storage Drive mounted inside the Server case for dumping a backup to monthly or so instead of having another NAS type device running on my network. Seems like a waist of energy and resources when I should be able to set it all up on the FreeNAS server. I need a Windows formatted drive that encase of a server failure I can remove and place into my Desktop for work related materials that I need. No work, no paycheck. Down time is crucial.
Mounting the drive with NTFS is no problem. The problem I am having is using the FreeNAS gui to do all the work. I have tried using Tasks>Rsync Tasks to accomplish this and its just not going as planned. I have tried everything I can think of.
The solution that I have ended up with is the following: I wrote a bash script to mount if not mounted and rsync data to the drive. Pretty simple but not sure if there is a better way. Here is an example of the bash script I came up with and I will use a Cron job to que the script once ever so often and allow the large backup drive to spin down when its not copying data. This is just an example
Code:
#!/bin/sh if [ -d "/mnt/ntfsmount/ColdStorage" ]; then rsync -Iua /mnt/vol1/Dir-To-Copy /mnt/ntfsmount else mount_msdosfs /dev/ada5 /mnt/ntfsmount rsync -Iua /mnt/vol1/Dir-To-Copy /mnt/ntfsmount fi
Basically checking the mount location to see if the backup directory is there, if not mount the drive then copy and it does work.
If anyone has a better solution please let me know. Appreciate it.
