Backing Up TrueNAS

1. Create an iX Storj account and link to TrueNAS.

   From the TrueNAS Dashboard, find the Backup Tasks widget and click Cloud Sync to Storj or similar provider.

   Open the Credentials dropdown and select Add New.

   The Storj iX provider is preselected. Click Signup for account to open a browser tab, then register, select a plan, and activate an iX-Storj Account.

   After creating the iX-Storj account, log in to the Storj portal, create a new bucket, and create new S3 access credentials (details). When the new S3 Credentials are created, download the Access Key and Secret Key and paste each string into the TrueNAS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key fields, respectively. Click Save.

2. Define the backup targets and schedule.

   In the TrueNAS Cloud sync task wizard, review the fields in the What and When section (details). Select the created Storj Bucket before choosing a Folder.

   There are several predefined Schedules to choose from, or you can select Custom to define your own.

   Click Save.

To create a simple replication task with the TrueNAS replication wizard:

1. Create a periodic snapshot task using the Periodic Snapshot Task or use the Run Once replication schedule option. If scheduling a task, SCALE creates the periodic snapshot task when it runs the replication task according to the scheduled time.

2. Create the replication task.

   Go to Data Protection and click Add on the Replication Tasks widget. The Replication Task Wizard opens on the What and Where configuration screen. Select both the Source Location and Destination Location using the dropdown list options. You can back up your data on the same system or a different system. If you select A different system you must have an SSH connection. Have your destination and source information ready.

   Next, enter the Source and Destination paths. To populate the field with the full path, you can either type the full path to the data you want to back up or click on the caret to the left of mnt and at the pool and dataset levels to expand the options. Click on the dataset and/or the file if you want to narrow backup down to that level.

   The task name populates from the values in Source and Destination. Click Next.

3. Define when you want this task to occur.

   Select the radio button for Run On a Schedule and select the schedule you want to use. Or select Run Once to run the task manually. If using this option you must have a periodic snapshot task already defined. If running on a schedule, you don’t have to have a pre-defined snapshot task.

   Select the radio button to specify the destination snapshot lifetime.

4. Click START REPLICATION. The task appears on the Replication Tasks widget with the status PENDING.