Have you done a backup recently?

[Gregory]

Hi,

I store all my music on my NAS (Freenas), on which I have installed Crashplan. I have a family license (10 computers), so the NAS and all the family computers are backed-up all the time. Every computer has a backup in both the cloud and on the NAS. The NAS is backuped in the cloud for the data part (no backup of the backups ;-) )

The initial upload of the NAS to the cloud took 3 weeks (was away for 2 weeks).

Now I just check my weekly email from freenas to see if everything has been backup recently.

[Gregory]

Hi Gregory - I use Amazon Cloud Drive for unlimited storage space at $60 per year. I really wish FreeNAS had a plugin for this. I'd love to use FreeNAS, but without automatic backup to Amazon, I'm not sure it's worth it.

I choose FreeNAS for the ZFS filesystem, but that's another debate. A backup to Amazon cloud would be great, I agree. A new version of Freenas (version 10) is expected soon, betas are out already, and should bring new extensions with Docker. Maybe then new backups solution will be available.

 

I checked out Crashplan. It's fairly inexpensive. But, I noticed Crashplan is causing issues with FreeNAS and the company is saying people won't be allowed to backup to its cloud from FreeNAS.

It's a pain in the neck to install on Freenas: the native plugin is not maintained so you have to install a virtual machine to run a Linux that run Crashplan...

But my initial choice for Crashplan was to have a simple solution to backup my parent's and sibling's computer. The 10 license family is $160/yr I think. Once installed it runs smoothly on Windows/Mac/Linux. Then I dealt with the hard setup for Freenas :-)

[Gregory]

I plan to hook up my 4tb drive to her computer there. Be calculator suggested it would take just shy of five days. (Won't run it a full upload speed... not sure the uni would be too happy if I brought their speeds down to dial-up...)

 

It sounds like a good plan. Stay under the radar by running late night and weekends only.

[Gregory]

I created a Freenas jail (called 'util'), mounted my music files in the jail, and run a nightly script in cron to upload any changes to my ripped files to Amazon Drive. I use rclone, there is a freebsd port so it all runs very smoothly (and automatically).

 

Does Amazon Drive has files history?

[Gregory]

14 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

What happens if the hard drives die, burn in a fire, or are stolen? 

 

Can you access those hard drives from anywhere in the world?

 

Plus automatic backup, one properly setup :-)

[Gregory]

4 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

I have a fire and water proof NAS box.  That used to be all I did.  Now my Brother and I have identical boxes and share space on each others for our own off site backups.

 

Hi AudioDoctor,

What system/software do you use to do this synchronization?

 

[Gregory]

2 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm

 

Thank you for the link.

So you can basically tell each NAS to backup each other, or is is a shared directory?

[Gregory]

Nice.

I'm looking to replace CrashPlan that has only the pro option available now. I'm considering getting 2 Synology to do the same, one being at my parents or siblings place.

[Gregory]

On 11/17/2021 at 4:44 PM, cambridgehank said:

Has any one heard that TM does not work over wireless networks?

 

I setup TimeMachine on my NAS and used it over WiFi, it wasn't the most reliable solution but it worked (sometimes).  I ended-up plugin an external drive as you did.