September 9, 20223 yr Hi all! I have about 30Tb of USB3 HDD's spread across a half dozen devices. Currently as a test, ive plugged them all into a hub and hooked it up to unraid happily (Showing as unassigned devices currently). I'm looking for guidance as to the easiest way to do a cold storage backup of some of the critical shares on my system (And have the drives available to other OS's when not plugged into my unraid) Anyone got some ideas on the best way to deal with a bunch of JBOD's like this? I envision it will be plugged into the server once a month or so to do some sort of incremental update, but im open to suggestions on best practices. Cheers everyone!
September 11, 20223 yr I do something similar here. I have several desktop/laptop perform daily backup to my Unraid server. Attached to the server are a couple of external USB drives, via Unassigned Devices. Once a week, I backup the backup files from the server to the external drives, using this simple User Script which uses rsync to mirror the folders on the server to the USB drive: #!/bin/bash rsync -avh -p --delete-before "/mnt/disks/Samsung_Flash_Drive_FIT/UNRAID_Backups" "/mnt/user/Backup/Ryzen Home desktop" "/mnt/user/Backup/appdata backup" "/mnt/disks/External_3TB_1" Every (other?) month, I swap the external drives with those I keep locked in my desk at work, just in case the most terrible of disasters hit. You can specify a User Script in the device's drive settings to run when the drive is mounted. I haven't done so, but may come in handy for you, just to keep track of which drive backups up what files.
September 19, 20223 yr Author Sorry mate, haven't checked in a while, but cheers for your thoughts! I'll investigate and see how it goes 🙂
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