Hi Guys,
This is my first post, so I will offer some of my background. From the start, I loved Windows Home Server. It was not perfect, but there were many things to like. In fact, I liked the platform so much I wrote software for it (shameless plug: www.keepvault.com). Since Microsoft - in its infinate wisdom - has decided to end of life the project, I have become a huge fan of FreeNAS. I have replaced my WHS box with FreeNAS and love it!
Now ... although I love the robust and rich features offered by ZFS, RAID like solutions provide data availability and not data protection. I wanted a simple backup solution, and put together the script below. I'm offering the script here in a hope that it helps someone.
Greg
NOTE: /mnt/storage and /mnt/backup are two different pools running on separate hardware.
This is my first post, so I will offer some of my background. From the start, I loved Windows Home Server. It was not perfect, but there were many things to like. In fact, I liked the platform so much I wrote software for it (shameless plug: www.keepvault.com). Since Microsoft - in its infinate wisdom - has decided to end of life the project, I have become a huge fan of FreeNAS. I have replaced my WHS box with FreeNAS and love it!
Now ... although I love the robust and rich features offered by ZFS, RAID like solutions provide data availability and not data protection. I wanted a simple backup solution, and put together the script below. I'm offering the script here in a hope that it helps someone.
Greg
NOTE: /mnt/storage and /mnt/backup are two different pools running on separate hardware.
Code:
#!/bin/sh # Simple script to backup data from BACKUP_SRC to BACKUP_DST # # this can be any drive attached to your FreeNAS box ... # ... internal drive(s), external USB drive(s), external SATA drives(s) # Backup source BACKUP_SRC=/mnt/storage/ # Backup destination -- DO NOT include the trailing slash BACKUP_DST=/mnt/backup rsync -aq -HAX --delete $BACKUP_SRC $BACKUP_DST # For a seven day cyclical backup, remove the comment from the line 'DAY=options' and # set the preferred directory name format 'Monday, etc or Mon, etc' # A = long day name (i.e. Monday, Tuesday, ... Sunday) # a = short day name (i.e. Mon, Tue, ... Sun) # This will create a daily backup directory (i.e. backup/Sat backup/Sun) # DAY=/`date +%a` # # rsync -aq -HAX --delete $BACKUP_SRC $BACKUP_DST$DAY # In the event of a drive failure: # # 1. Replace failed hardware. # 2. Recreate datasets and set appropriate permission # 3. Reverse paths in this script and re-run it # end
