Backup Unraid to Unraid with a GUI

[Barry Staes]

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?

[Barry Staes]

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?

[Aran]

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.

[MrGrey]

Is this commercial or family?

 

MrGrey.

[Barry Staes]

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

[PSYCHOPATHiO]

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.

[Aran]

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.

[TimTheSettler]

I use Vorta.  I also use the Wireguard VPN in unRAID to connect the computers over the internet.

[theone]

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?

 

[foo_fighter]

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.

 

 

[theone]

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.

[foo_fighter]

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 Thursday at 11:18 PM by foo_fighter