Truenas and BackupPC in jail to backup Seafile

[dustmaster]

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:

Quickstart Guide for BackupPC 4 in a jail on FreeNAS

BackupPC is an agent-less backup software that retrieves files from Windows or Linux computer with smbclient or rsync. Since FreeNAS 11.2, there is an official plugin for BackupPC but it is broken (the web management interface is missing), therefore I propose this is step-by-step guide to...

www.truenas.com

Any comments would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

 

[Cire3PC]

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