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Backup Unraid to Unraid with a GUI


Barry Staes

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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?

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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?

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  • 10 months later...

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?

 

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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.

 

 

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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. 

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