CyrusDemar Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Hi! I need some advice and recommendations about long term backup. I've had an Unraid server running for about a year now, and love the simplicity of setting up and maintaining Unraid. But now I've outgrown the old hardware and am planning to upgrade to something beefier. (Right now 2core/4threads and 4 gigs of RAM) It runs fine, but not really suited for VMs or anything that requires any RAM at all. I have a lot (140ish gigs) of family photos on the server, and a lot of other stuff I'd rather not loose. I'm not worried about transferring the disks to new hardware, but I'm rather thinking of adding redundancy. The saying goes that any single NAS server isn't really a good backup. The Question now is. Should I just get a second Unraid Key and setup the new server on that, keeping the old one as a backup, or are there other solutions that you'd recommend as a more long term solution? I'm thinking that backing up about once a week should be more than enough for my needs. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 3 hours ago, CyrusDemar said: I have a lot (140ish gigs) of family photos on the server, and a lot of other stuff I'd rather not loose. Do you not already have backup? Parity is not a backup. Quote Link to comment
CyrusDemar Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, trurl said: Do you not already have backup? Parity is not a backup. Exactly! I have a few harddisks in a drawer with my actual backup. I just want to get off that haphazzard backup system. Edited March 5, 2021 by CyrusDemar Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Backup server is what I used my old build for. Quote Link to comment
CyrusDemar Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 29 minutes ago, trurl said: Backup server is what I used my old build for. That was My thinking. What did you use to backup? Rsync? Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Same. I repurposed old server as a backup server. I use the rsync script found in this post to run periodic backups automatically and unattended via ssh login. It is completely set it and forget it and has been running for three years. This can appear daunting and it took me a few days to get it all figured out, but, once it works you are set. If the rsync stuff is not something you want to deal with, there are docker containers such as Resilio Sync or other, but those only work if the backup server is up and running and are more manual. My backup server has an IPMI board so it can be powered on and off by the scripts, but if you don't have that, I used to do something similar with wake/sleep via the etherwake command. Quote Link to comment
CyrusDemar Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 59 minutes ago, Hoopster said: Same. I repurposed old server as a backup server. I use the rsync script found in this post to run periodic backups automatically and unattended via ssh login. It is completely set it and forget it and has been running for three years. This can appear daunting and it took me a few days to get it all figured out, but, once it works you are set. If the rsync stuff is not something you want to deal with, there are docker containers such as Resilio Sync or other, but those only work if the backup server is up and running and are more manual. My backup server has an IPMI board so it can be powered on and off by the scripts, but if you don't have that, I used to do something similar with wake/sleep via the etherwake command. Neat! Sounds exactly what im looking for. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
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