I will try to keep this brief, but I probably won't be able to since I like to ramble sometimes. I am looking to modify my current backup solution for my unRAID system. I have been looking at it harder lately, and the more I look, the less I like what I am doing. Problem is, I cannot find any real "easy" or quick solution to it. So here is what I do now... I run Crashplan as a docker, and have crashplan installed on multiple PCs around the house. All the PC's backup to the unRAID nightly. Unraid backs up to a work computer offsite (one they were going to just get rid of) that runs 24X7, and that serves as my DR solution. Currently (for obvious reason of this being at work) nothing that could be considered "intellectual property" ever touches the work computer. Right now it is only things I said to myself that I could never lose. Family photos (several thousand) of my first child being born, tax documents, school work, etc. I am now wanting to backup EVERYTHING to somewhere that does not involve my work. It's not that anyone at my job cares (because they don't), but I want to be able to keep EVERYTHING offsite, and not have this moral dilemma. Also, whatever solution I come up with has that initial pain of the first offsite "push" of 10 TB of data using a 12 mbps upload speed. I have a little money that I am saving right now, and would not mind buying a cheap system, putting unraid on that new system, and then once the intial backup is complete, putting that computer at a friends house, providing I can access it remotely to change a few things of course when needed. I figured I would ask the masses.... Am I crazy? I always said this was content I could easily get again if something terrible (lightning strike, tornado, fire, flood) ever happened to my home, but as I get more and more content, I am starting to think that backup of absolutely everything isn't such a bad idea. Better to do it now then wait until I have collected another 10 TB of crap right? I am willing to spend a little money here, but would like to keep it fairly cheap if possible. This would just be a system that is for backup ONLY, and really nothing else. Does anybody have anything like this going on now that they could walk me through how they set it up? Also, if you do this, do you backup EVERYTHING on your "daily driver" unRAID box, or just some things?

 

Thoughts?

I will try to keep this brief, but I probably won't be able to since I like to ramble sometimes. I am looking to modify my current backup solution for my unRAID system. I have been looking at it harder lately, and the more I look, the less I like what I am doing. Problem is, I cannot find any real "easy" or quick solution to it. So here is what I do now... I run Crashplan as a docker, and have crashplan installed on multiple PCs around the house. All the PC's backup to the unRAID nightly. Unraid backs up to a work computer offsite (one they were going to just get rid of) that runs 24X7, and that serves as my DR solution. Currently (for obvious reason of this being at work) nothing that could be considered "intellectual property" ever touches the work computer. Right now it is only things I said to myself that I could never lose. Family photos (several thousand) of my first child being born, tax documents, school work, etc. I am now wanting to backup EVERYTHING to somewhere that does not involve my work. It's not that anyone at my job cares (because they don't), but I want to be able to keep EVERYTHING offsite, and not have this moral dilemma. Also, whatever solution I come up with has that initial pain of the first offsite "push" of 10 TB of data using a 12 mbps upload speed. I have a little money that I am saving right now, and would not mind buying a cheap system, putting unraid on that new system, and then once the intial backup is complete, putting that computer at a friends house, providing I can access it remotely to change a few things of course when needed. I figured I would ask the masses.... Am I crazy? I always said this was content I could easily get again if something terrible (lightning strike, tornado, fire, flood) ever happened to my home, but as I get more and more content, I am starting to think that backup of absolutely everything isn't such a bad idea. Better to do it now then wait until I have collected another 10 TB of crap right? I am willing to spend a little money here, but would like to keep it fairly cheap if possible. This would just be a system that is for backup ONLY, and really nothing else. Does anybody have anything like this going on now that they could walk me through how they set it up? Also, if you do this, do you backup EVERYTHING on your "daily driver" unRAID box, or just some things?

 

Thoughts?

 

My initial thought is look up the word paragraph in the dictionary..  (Only joking, reminds me of how my brother writes, like a direct line from brain to page)

 

I think your idea is spot on.  My backup strategies are sadly lacking with no offsite component and I know it's something I need to implement. 

 

I have a much larger array than you so the issue of cost becomes ever more prohibitive, if I could se my time again I would build two systems in unison for just this reason.  If I purchased enough drives now to backup my complete array offsite along with the necessary hardware I think it would result in divorce.

 

As 10TB is still fairly moderate by this forum's standard and you're talking about it, I assume that the financial side of things is OK and you can afford it then a complete duplicate array would be a great idea. 

 

Better to implement it now and in the future plan for buying two drives each time you need to expand and you'll be all set.

 

What would be even better to implement in this plan is mirroring of the drives.  That way say you lost 2 drives on your Unraid box it would be a simple matter of duplicating the lost drives from the backup.  I'm not sure exactly how to do this but my suspicion would be rsync is the way to go with a disk based approach rather than shares.

 

Be interested to know how this goes for you so please post back when you can.

I will try to keep this brief, but I probably won't be able to since I like to ramble sometimes. I am looking to modify my current backup solution for my unRAID system. I have been looking at it harder lately, and the more I look, the less I like what I am doing. Problem is, I cannot find any real "easy" or quick solution to it. So here is what I do now... I run Crashplan as a docker, and have crashplan installed on multiple PCs around the house. All the PC's backup to the unRAID nightly. Unraid backs up to a work computer offsite (one they were going to just get rid of) that runs 24X7, and that serves as my DR solution. Currently (for obvious reason of this being at work) nothing that could be considered "intellectual property" ever touches the work computer. Right now it is only things I said to myself that I could never lose. Family photos (several thousand) of my first child being born, tax documents, school work, etc. I am now wanting to backup EVERYTHING to somewhere that does not involve my work. It's not that anyone at my job cares (because they don't), but I want to be able to keep EVERYTHING offsite, and not have this moral dilemma. Also, whatever solution I come up with has that initial pain of the first offsite "push" of 10 TB of data using a 12 mbps upload speed. I have a little money that I am saving right now, and would not mind buying a cheap system, putting unraid on that new system, and then once the intial backup is complete, putting that computer at a friends house, providing I can access it remotely to change a few things of course when needed. I figured I would ask the masses.... Am I crazy? I always said this was content I could easily get again if something terrible (lightning strike, tornado, fire, flood) ever happened to my home, but as I get more and more content, I am starting to think that backup of absolutely everything isn't such a bad idea. Better to do it now then wait until I have collected another 10 TB of crap right? I am willing to spend a little money here, but would like to keep it fairly cheap if possible. This would just be a system that is for backup ONLY, and really nothing else. Does anybody have anything like this going on now that they could walk me through how they set it up? Also, if you do this, do you backup EVERYTHING on your "daily driver" unRAID box, or just some things?

 

Thoughts?

 

As you said you have Crashplan on your desktops so that "is" a backup solution already. There is always a certain level of paranoia when it comes to backing up or saving files. What is really %100 fault tolerance? Nothing. I have several desktops with Crashplan installed, which I rely on their cloud services to save whatever hits the workstations. Then I have a VM running Ubuntu with Crashplan installed backing up just the most important "stuff" to Crashplan's cloud service also. I've used Crashplan several times to restore data and files. They haven't let me down and I have to believe their cloud service won't fail me. There are a ton of options to be redundant. Backup to multiple external drives, save all those drives at different locations. Do it all over again to be sure. Then, if you are real paranoid, do it again. You can keep going and going. Has to stop somewhere. Over the years I've learned to let go a little. With unraid+Crashplan I'm good with that. If I lose some photos, tax documents or license files it really doesn't become the end of the world. Time will continue and after 100 years nothing will matter unless you want to leave a legacy to be known forever. Sounds philosophical and corny but the older I get the less I grasp for control and world domination.