ghostlobster
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- Oct 10, 2012
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All,
I've been struggling with finding an easy way to backup my data stored on my FreeNAS box locally to my external drive and was able to get things backing up using a bit of a roundabout kludge. I attached a 2TB external drive to my system and created a ZFS volume. I then created a user for backups and made that user as the owner of the volume within the GUI, setting the permissions recursively. Then, I created a RSync module, pointing to that new volume and using the new user, setting permissions to read/write. Then, created a new RSync push task, snagging the file system I want backed up from my main data volume, pointing back to the blocal host name, setting it to run nightly at 12:01AM every day. Well, what do you know, it worked!
While this post is mostly intended to be informative, I would appreciate it if someone who has a better, easier way of managing to get this done would let me know and post it here. Basically, what is anyone else using for local backups?
I've been struggling with finding an easy way to backup my data stored on my FreeNAS box locally to my external drive and was able to get things backing up using a bit of a roundabout kludge. I attached a 2TB external drive to my system and created a ZFS volume. I then created a user for backups and made that user as the owner of the volume within the GUI, setting the permissions recursively. Then, I created a RSync module, pointing to that new volume and using the new user, setting permissions to read/write. Then, created a new RSync push task, snagging the file system I want backed up from my main data volume, pointing back to the blocal host name, setting it to run nightly at 12:01AM every day. Well, what do you know, it worked!
While this post is mostly intended to be informative, I would appreciate it if someone who has a better, easier way of managing to get this done would let me know and post it here. Basically, what is anyone else using for local backups?