Truenas and BackupPC in jail to backup Seafile

dustmaster

Dabbler
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Nov 24, 2020
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Hi to all,
I have a Seafile cloud server running and think about using our Truenas as a backup solution. The Truenas server runs as a physical installation (no VM, etc.) in a SoHo environment.

From my research it seems reasonable to install the BackupPC software in a jail on the Truenas and pull the whole seafile folder with rsync method via SSH. On the remote Seafile server there would be no backup structure apart from Seafiles built in versioning. This saves disk space and redundancy of tasks.

It seems like BackupPC would master well the tasks of backup timing, incremental archives, recovery and so on.

Well - could work. I am just not too sure about ease of setup, administration and community support of this solution. Maybe there is something way more convenient though also FOSS? I read this post for ex. to get an idea about BackupPC:

Any comments would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
 

Cire3PC

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Sep 2, 2020
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It has been years since I have setup backuppc. However, there is nothing like it with versioning, deduplication. Highly recomend.
 
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