December 8, 20232 yr Hi Everyone. I'm fairly new to Unraid (been using for about 6 months) and am looking to create a backup of my data. I would like to use an external USB enclosure (5 bay) that I would connect periodically to backup my shared folder. I have searched online and haven't found any good guides on how to do this. I have tried setting up a second TrueNAS box, but it would not read all the drives in the enclosure (as noted on multiple forums). Is there any simple way to to do this? I also have separate windows and linux machines if it possible to use those for this purpose. Again, I'm just looking to have a backup copy of the files that I can keep off network. Thanks in advance!
December 8, 20232 yr Do you want the 5 disks to just be individual disks that you back up to? If so, you should be able to use the unassigned device plugin to mount the disk(s) and then use a backup application or sync to transfer the data over to the drives.
December 8, 20232 yr Author Thank you for replying. That is one option, but I was hoping to maximize drive space and use it as a pool. Any way to make that work?
December 8, 20232 yr 32 minutes ago, Begoldar said: Thank you for replying. That is one option, but I was hoping to maximize drive space and use it as a pool. Any way to make that work? I have used those external USB enclosures before on Windows with Drivepool to pool to make one combine disk. I had good results with them. It really all depends on the enclosure. Drivepool is very straightforward to use. It is well worth the money. If you are not interested in paying you can always use mergerfs on Linux. I think there is an app for it on Unraid but I don't have any experience with it.
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