Stolen FreeNAS box, rebuild from Backups

[Dotty]

I know you can save the config and restore it.
I know you can have the FreeNAS synced to another, or to the cloud, and have the data backed up as well.

Lets say someone stole my FreeNAS, and I have the pieces for another one, identical hardware.
Obviously, I can restore the config, and I can restore the data, but how do I restore the structure of the volumes?
(I mean, lets say on the original box I created 3 Volumes, with some RAIDZ settings , Datasets, etc, etc)

Is there any way to backup and restore the structure of the actual volumes?

Otherwise Im looking at manually creating all those little things, and then restoring the data from cloud.

Thanks!

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Is there any way to backup and restore the structure of the actual volumes?

ZFS snapshots preserve the filesystem structure and contents, and replication can be used to back them up. Combine this with a backup of the config and you're pretty well covered.

 

[wblock]

Console menu options 11 and 12 do some of this. See http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/quick.html#console-setup-menu-fig.

 

[Dotty]

Console menu options 11 and 12 do some of this. See http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/quick.html#console-setup-menu-fig.

Can I have backups from multiple boxes on the same target? I have a few boxes running FreeNAS, I might put a linux machine on AWS to receive the backups for all of them. Just the ZFS layout, and just upon changes on such layouts.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

backups for all of them. Just the ZFS layout

Do you mean the FreeNAS configuration settings? The filesystem structure cannot be backed up separately from the data.

 

[Dotty]

Do you mean the FreeNAS configuration settings? The filesystem structure cannot be backed up separately from the data.

I meant what wblock wrote (about console menus 11 and 12), I read the documentation, it says "11) Create volume backup: backs up the FreeNAS® configuration and ZFS layout, and, optionally, the data, to a remote system over an encrypted connection."
Looks like thats what I was looking for.
Testing that today and I will report back later.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I will report back later.

Please do, there isn't much discussion of those menu options in the forums.