josh5565 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Sorry if this question has been answered a few times but I couldn't find anything relating to my needs exactly. I have been using Unraid for years as my media server. I am now needing it to do 1 more task. Currently for our offsite backups at our office performed by Backup Exec we copy the files to a WD passport drive and take it home weekly. This task is getting to be a little annoying so I am looking to automate the process. The offsite backup is roughly 2TB of data. Does anyone have a plugin schedule uploads or that can recommend a program to connect to unraid via FTP or some other protocol to do this? I really would like to schedule when server will upload the data so it doesn't effect the bandwidth at our office during normal business hours. Quote Link to comment
tiwing Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I know this reply is a lot late from the original ask but I have one answer that might help someone else searching... I do all my scheduled backups using Syncback Free http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/index.html running in a windows 10 VM. It uses task scheduler rather than a service to schedule each backup task, and connects to ftp and other networks. I'm doing an offsite backup via VPN to a network share, and via FTP to another site as well. It has run flawlessly under XP, 7, and win 10 for over 2 years. ... It will also email you logs of each backup completion of failure whenver a backup is attempted. The first backup, ideally, you will do with the machines next to each other connected on the same LAN - that's a lot of data to move over a WAN connection. But after that, the program searches for changed files and only copies what's needed. It's not as efficient as rsync as far as I know, but I don't think rsync will work over ftp (please correct me if I"m wrong!) cheers Quote Link to comment
jamerson9 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Seconding Syncback, I have an old SyncbackSE version which also compresses and encrypts before sending them offsite. I'm sure there are more elegant ways of doing this, but its been working well for years so I haven't fiddled with it. Quote Link to comment
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