Hi,

 

I now have 2 unraid servers, one as my main server, the other as a backup.

 

How do I go about setting up a scheduled backup from the main to the backup server?

 

I've googled and there didn't appear to be a plugin or a guide for unraid.

I use my client computer to do this via a schedule task (in Windows) that runs SyncBack, an excellent (and free) backup utility.

 

Others do the same thing, but their Windows "PC" is a VM running on their UnRAID server, so there's really no additional PC needed.

 

... or you can do it with Linux utilities; but I'm not a "Linux guy", so you'll need for somebody else to chime in with the details on that.

 

Thank garycase,

 

I really want a system set up unraid to unraid that I just leave to run without any third party systems.  My Synology was running a backup every night incrementally and that worked ok, but I decided to go with an unraid > unraid system and sell the Synology.

 

I assume I could use rsync and a cron task, but might need some guidance as to how to achieve this.  I've use gui versions to backup my webservers before, and the Synology used a rsync gui too.  What I want to do is to sync shares to shares so the backup box basically has a mirror of the main system that will also run a few docker apps.  The drives are different sizes so I can't sync disk1 main to disk1 backup if you see what I mean.

 

Main is 4x3Tb and a 250Gb Cache. (HP G8)

Backup is 4x2Tb and no Cache, but with the possiblity of adding an addition 2 drives later (HP N40L)

 

Any help would be appreciated.  I think WeeboTech set me off on the right direction last year when I was trying to sync to my Synology box, but it went a bit over my head. lol.  http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36001.0

Unassigned devices plugin will allow you to mount network shares.

 

You can put a .cron file in config/plugins/dynamix to schedule a script.

 

You will have to write a script to do the actual rsync.

 

There are examples of these ideas around the forum. See search tips in my sig.

Thanks trurl,

 

I have already installed unassigned devices plugin so I will take a look at it and search about the cron job bit.