July 16, 20232 yr 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?
July 16, 20232 yr Author 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?
July 16, 20232 yr 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.
July 18, 20232 yr Author 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
July 19, 20232 yr 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.
July 19, 20232 yr 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.
July 26, 20232 yr I use Vorta. I also use the Wireguard VPN in unRAID to connect the computers over the internet.
June 19, 20242 yr 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?
June 20, 20242 yr 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.
June 20, 20242 yr 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.
June 20, 20242 yr 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, 20242 yr by foo_fighter
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