Sense check - can someone advise if this is the right thing to do?

[BenW]

Hi, 

 

I've had an UNRAID server for a few years and it's served me well.

 

I initially purchased quite a significant amount of storage which I've been slower than I thought I would be to use, so the server is sitting at about 50% capacity currently. 

 

I run a small video production company, and there is about 40tb of footage & business files that I want to keep safe. 

I've been paying for crash plan pro, but have noticed recently that it seems to just continually be re-scanning files or checking - it never seems to actually reliably be uploading and I don't trust that if there were a fire or a theft at my premises that I would actually be able to recover that amount of data from them. In addition to paying $16aud per month. 

 

My idea is to remove 40-50tb of drives from the UNRAID and put them into an existing enclosure that I have sitting around, and connect that to an old MacBook Pro that will sit out in the shed, connected by Wifi, and have a docker push backups out to keep that Mac up to date with the latest storage. Unfortunately I don't have anyone that I could convince to run a machine at a remote location on their internet for offsite backup, although hopefully the garage is removed enough to mitigate theft or fire. 

 

Yes, I know that it's not the safest, but it'd probably be safer than just relying on the UNRAID?

 

What are your thoughts on this strategy? 

Do you have a recommendation of a docker that could manage to push the updates out to a remote file-share via SMB?

Cheers in advance

 

Edited April 4, 2023 by BenW
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[Hoopster]

1 hour ago, BenW said:

Do you have a recommendation of a docker

Several people use the LuckyBackup docker container.

 

Here is a tutorial on how to set it up.

 

Personally, I just have Unraid to Unraid backup automated via a User Script.  Once a week the script powers on my backup server (it has IPMI) backs up disk by disk (both servers have the same number of disks of the same size - share by share is also possibly), emails me the results and powers off the server.  It is all unattended and happens at 1am every Monday but could, off course, be any desired frequency.

 

Another option is to use the Unassigned Devices plugin and backup to portable external USB drives.  There is a sample script in the first UD post.

 

I do server-to-server, USB drive and Crashplan Pro backups. 

Edited April 4, 2023 by Hoopster