Should I change my setup/configuration?

[Foster2984]

I have a Windows server with Storage Spaces (no mirrors or parity) sharing my data in a domain environment. I used to have this server backup data to an external hard drive. I recently set up a TrueNAS with a Z1 raid and have the Windows server backing up to it instead. Now that I need to increase my storage space, I am reconsidering this setup.

Am I doing this backward? Should I be sharing from the Z1 raid for everyday use and backing up to the Storage Space instead? If so, is there any reason not to backup to another pool on TrueNAS and eliminate the Windows Storage Space altogether?

 

[dashtesla]

If you can get a tape drive for backups that might make more sense depending on how much data and whatever deals you can find, otherwise you can dump backups to old drives etc.

Active/online backups that's a different story, you can run everything off a truenas vm i do that but i've been having issues with networking and dropouts so i'm not sure it's a good idea you could also just get a separate machine like a dell r510 with 12 bays and run your storage separately on bare metal.

Storage Spaces is cancer everyone knows linus even made a video about it absolute rubbish they haven't fixed bugs for parity the configuration process is awful and can fail at any second, if you need a block device for AD sharing from windows (even though you can do all that from truenas) then you can look into iSCSI though unecessary for your use.