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Hi All
I am really just getting into the whole home nas environment and have played with unraid quite a bit over the last few weeks but am now looking at truenas scale instead.
I plan to have one server that is on all the time and is "performant" (all things are relative) - used for storing and editing video files directly from the box. This will have a couple of SSDs for a cache and generally be a faster machine. I will have a second machine that is only used for backup of the first machine. It will only need to run once a week or maybe for only a few minutes every night for a backup task.
Power is expensive and I don't want to run 2 servers 24/7 with all the discs spinning all the time.
What is the best option here?
Things that I have considered:
Any help much appreciated. Thanks
I am really just getting into the whole home nas environment and have played with unraid quite a bit over the last few weeks but am now looking at truenas scale instead.
I plan to have one server that is on all the time and is "performant" (all things are relative) - used for storing and editing video files directly from the box. This will have a couple of SSDs for a cache and generally be a faster machine. I will have a second machine that is only used for backup of the first machine. It will only need to run once a week or maybe for only a few minutes every night for a backup task.
Power is expensive and I don't want to run 2 servers 24/7 with all the discs spinning all the time.
What is the best option here?
Things that I have considered:
- spin down the discs in the backup machine when not in use. This seems to be a big no on in Truenas though and even though I've found some discussions it seems "hacky", not well supported and probably beyond my level of comfort in this new technology. The backup machine draws about 30w at idle with no discs spinning. This is probably ok for 24/7 uptime.
- shut down the backup server when not in use. This seems more likely to be a solution. It seems I can setup cron to start a replication job after backup server boots. Can I run a shutdown command after the replication is complete. This woul dnot allow me to perform a snapshot on the prod box before running the replication on the backup box though presumably
Any help much appreciated. Thanks