TRUENAS Offisite Backup

[enaugavule1]

Hello There,
I'm new to truenas and haven't tested out yet at the moment. I currently have a server setup with 1TB of storage and was hoping to schedule or do an offsite backup or replication to another external site. Please note I'm planning to do a replication from my virtual machine on Hyper-v to an external site

Does anyone have a step-by-step link to follow as a guideline in setting up and configuring this and also does it require port forwarding to be enabled on the two routers from my end and where I need to do the replication backup too??

 

[Heracles]

virtual machine on Hyper-v

Not recommended at all. The only hypervisor with some experience with TrueNAS is VMWare.

Also, when going virtual, you must passthrough the controller to TrueNAS for it to manage the hard drives directly. Do not present virtual drives to TrueNAS : you will loose all your data in no time.

 

[enaugavule1]

Not recommended at all. The only hypervisor with some experience with TrueNAS is VMWare.

Also, when going virtual, you must passthrough the controller to TrueNAS for it to manage the hard drives directly. Do not present virtual drives to TrueNAS : you will loose all your data in no time.

Thanks for the quick response.
how can we run or use this in a test environment?. Also with the Hardware portion, is it possible to use a built PC server with high-end specs for the two sites ?

 

[sretalla]

I see you also found this thread:

Off-site Replica/Backup

Hi all, I have been testing the snapshot replication between two FreeNAS systems for a few days and it seems to be working very well! Now I'd like to send snapshots to off-site cold storage and possibly manage their rotation. The goal is to reduce recovery times even in the event of a complete...

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how can we run or use this in a test environment?

To state the obvious, source test environment hardware, install the software on it, configure it and test the functionality you're after.

I understand that you're probably asking if you can run a functional test before buying anything and you already have Hyper-V... so if you want to run a functional test with test data, use Hyper-V.

Do not store important data that you wish not to lose on a VM with virtual disks.

with the Hardware portion, is it possible to use a built PC server with high-end specs for the two sites ?

TrueNAS will install on a large variety of hardware, but it runs well on server gear (usually Intel CPU, ECC RAM and Intel NIC with an LSI HBA to attach disks).