scurrier
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I intend to assemble a FreeNAS box using all of the great advice and guides I have seen on this forum. Thanks to everyone who contributes.
I have a backup scheme planned that seems very robust to me. I've researched threads of people who designed similar schemes, but I have a few unique questions and would just like to get some validation from the community.
My plan is to run a FreeNAS box (on server-grade hardware, ECC, etc.) which will be my home's main fileserver, holding all our data and precious memories. The data will be available to network machines (Windows and portable devices) via CIFS shares. Attached to this FreeNAS box, I would have an eSATA drive which does an rsync or something nightly to keep daily backups of our files. Once every few months, I would take this drive offsite and rotate it with a second backup drive. So, I'd have two backup drives which are continually rotated offsite.
Maybe I'd also keep a third "stationary" drive permanently attached via eSATA, just as another layer of daily backup protection.
Here's my concerns and questions.
I have a backup scheme planned that seems very robust to me. I've researched threads of people who designed similar schemes, but I have a few unique questions and would just like to get some validation from the community.
My plan is to run a FreeNAS box (on server-grade hardware, ECC, etc.) which will be my home's main fileserver, holding all our data and precious memories. The data will be available to network machines (Windows and portable devices) via CIFS shares. Attached to this FreeNAS box, I would have an eSATA drive which does an rsync or something nightly to keep daily backups of our files. Once every few months, I would take this drive offsite and rotate it with a second backup drive. So, I'd have two backup drives which are continually rotated offsite.
Maybe I'd also keep a third "stationary" drive permanently attached via eSATA, just as another layer of daily backup protection.
Here's my concerns and questions.
- What are your first thoughts? Does this sound like a robust scheme? Or is basing it all off of FreeNAS risky?
- If I run ZFS on the backup drives, would they be adequately protected from "bit rot" and other nasties which affect lesser file systems, despite not being mirrored or in a RAIDZ? I don't want to go to a backup and find it's been corrupted.
- Would I be able to somewhat easily do a FreeNAS GUI-based encryption of my backup drives which rotate off-site? If it's too complicated I will be afraid of screwed it up and losing everything in a backup-reliant situation. Does this fall within the expected usage of the encryption features?