Barry Staes Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 I would like my old Unraid server to become an offsite online backup for 100% of my server including media. (Yes, i do offline backups too, but only critical personal data. This thread is about offsite online backups!) I am not looking for something more complicated than rsync + a GUI + scheduling/automation options. And if this works, perhaps incremental snapshots. I have looked at some backup softwares (listed in 2nd post below) but lots of these are broken, unmaintained, or not intended for my server-to-server usecase. Rsync is fine but its not a GUI. Doing manual copies in Krusader works for now, but i would rather use something somewhat automated / reproducable. Any options? Quote Link to comment
Barry Staes Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share Posted July 16, 2023 Some automated GUI backup copy solutions i considered. I was surprised there are so many bad options. Veeam (enterprise features, but overkill and expensive) Duplicati (broken, not recommended) Duplicacy (paid yet not improved or maintained, not recommended) Borg + borgmatic (?) Restic (?) Arq5 (?) Urbackup (good, maintained, but different use case) Syncthing (good, maintained, but different use case) Those with a (?) i still need to look at, but seem to have different use cases as well.. are there more i should take a look at? Quote Link to comment
Aran Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Install 'tailscale' on both servers and learn how to schedule an rsync script with unraid 'user scripts'.Seriously, it's not that hard for a simple backup script. Quote Link to comment
MrGrey Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Is this commercial or family? MrGrey. Quote Link to comment
Barry Staes Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share Posted July 18, 2023 On 7/16/2023 at 11:12 PM, Aran said: Install 'tailscale' on both servers and learn how to schedule an rsync script with unraid 'user scripts'. Seriously, it's not that hard for a simple backup script. Been considering that as well, it would be the best compromise, by far, so far. @MrGrey not commercial Quote Link to comment
PSYCHOPATHiO Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 I use a windows VM and FreeFileSync to maintain my folder organization, I opted for the easy way. There is a docker for FreeFileSync, but I haunt got to it yet, as I backup once a month or so. Quote Link to comment
Aran Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 Maybe look into resilio for backup or syncthing for syncronisation. A docker container seems more resource-friendly than a vm. I tried the freefilesync docker but i was not conviced. Quote Link to comment
TimTheSettler Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 I use Vorta. I also use the Wireguard VPN in unRAID to connect the computers over the internet. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 I am also looking into this and plan to use FreeFileSync. I wake up my remote unraid (doing it over IPMI - working OK) Wait until remote unraid is up and running - How do I get the remote unRAID server status (Array On)? Start backup from local to remote backup server (FreeFileSync) Powerdown the remote unraid (doing it over IPMI - working OK) How do I do the wait part without a wait for X minutes command but with some sort of polling or notification? Quote Link to comment
foo_fighter Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 7 hours ago, theone said: I am also looking into this and plan to use FreeFileSync. I wake up my remote unraid (doing it over IPMI - working OK) Wait until remote unraid is up and running - How do I get the remote unRAID server status (Array On)? Start backup from local to remote backup server (FreeFileSync) Powerdown the remote unraid (doing it over IPMI - working OK) How do I do the wait part without a wait for X minutes command but with some sort of polling or notification? A loop with sleep and ping might work. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 17 hours ago, foo_fighter said: A loop with sleep and ping might work. I don't want to know if the backup server is connected to network I want to now that the actual array pool is on so I can backup to it. Quote Link to comment
foo_fighter Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 (edited) 3 hours ago, theone said: I don't want to know if the backup server is connected to network I want to now that the actual array pool is on so I can backup to it. Oh, you're booting from power off. Usually, I just resume from sleep so once the network is connected the array is available. You could have a file in a remote share and run curl/wget/scp etc in a loop until you can retrieve it locally. Once you can retrieve it, you know the remote share is mounted and its array is on. I also use syncthing for syncing/backups and it auto handles these types of things. Edited June 20 by foo_fighter Quote Link to comment
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