Hey,

Just seen Ubiquiti's new UNAS 4 device and been considering changing to one from my Unraid. But I do have some thoughts and questions i'd like to ask here first.

One beenfit of the UNAS 4 is that it is a lot smaller. Downside is it's less functional.

My main current use of Unraid is as a NAS. I do have Plex on it but over the last year or so i've really not used that functionality much so wouldn't necessarily miss it.

I'm finding unraid more "manual" on everything, Which I do understand is sort of the point.

What I am wondering if you guys can help with are finding solutions to the main issue I have with Unraid and that's achieveing simple and easily configurable backups. I don;t want anything over-complicated or needing a lot of set up steps.

Basically I have a share called Photos. I want to back that up to My Backblaze B2 account. I do not want it to backup in the form of duplicati (I already have that set up and running right now), I just need a one to one copy of my Photos share in B2.

Just a nice easy GUI to enable me to set it up and run it.

Can anyone help here?

Any suggestions here?

On 10/11/2025 at 4:42 AM, rctneil said:

What I am wondering if you guys can help with are finding solutions to the main issue I have with Unraid and that's achieveing simple and easily configurable backups.

I used to backup most of my Unraid contents to the cloud with CrashPlan (unlimited $10 a month), but, I have never used B2 since with their pricing model, that would cost me over $90 a month.

I have a backup Unraid server to which I backed up my main server once a week through an automated rsync script. Since I have now moved that server to a location 260 miles away, it takes the place of my cloud backup. Both locations are on UniFi LANs, and I use the UniFi SD WAN capabilities to see the remote server by IP address just as easily as if it were physically in the same LAN as the local server. The rsync backup script runs unattended once a week and has been doing so for years. I also backup photos and Plex content to an Unassigned Devices external USB drive on demand (automated backup once plugged in) via an Unassigned Devices script.

Out of curiosity, I looked at the UNAS but it seemed under-powered to me with an ARM Cortex A57 processor and I prefer the customization capabilities with Unraid; however, as you noted, it takes a bit of manual tinkering, but, I like that.

Some Unraid users seem to gravitate to Lucky Backup for server to server backups as it is more GUI driven, but, I don't think that supports B2.

I really can't point you to a GUI that helps you backup Unraid shares to B2 as I have zero experience with that.