1812 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Goal: to create a pool of drives mounted via unassigned devices that I can present as a network storage location outside of my unRaid array, to which I wish to use for backups of my array. Prefer something that can run on 1-2 GB ram and deal with 15TB of drives. It doesn't have to be fast, just functional. I'm sure this might be able to be hacked together using command line, but that's not my greatest strength. Even through unraid doesnt allow a second cache pool or array, I wanted to keep everything contained in 1 disk enclosure and managed by one server (although I have 3 or 4 licenses running on different machines at home and at work.) Thoughts? or any other way of achieving this? I played around with ubuntu to do this, but I'm wondering if there is something even more stripped down with a gui out there. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
vanes Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, 1812 said: outside of my unRaid array, to which I wish to use for backups of my arra you can try use zfs plugin to create zfs pool for backups, then share it using smb-extra config. Edited July 22, 2018 by vanes Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 5 hours ago, vanes said: you can try use zfs plugin to create zfs pool for backups, then share it using smb-extra config. interesting. How much ram does it require? The server I'm putting this in is skimpy on ram at the moment (4GB) and freeNas recommends 8GB for ZFS pools. Quote Link to comment
vanes Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 1 hour ago, 1812 said: How much ram does it require? I am not zfs-guru, my first zfs pool was created some weeks ago. I use 2 usb hdd drives in mirror (raid1) for zfs-backup-pool, rsync by user-scripts copy important data there once a week. I limited ARC cache of 2Gb memory using user-scripts. Totally my system have 8Gb of RAM. Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 looks like openmediavault in a vm is going to do it. I can run it on 500mb of ram and it creates jbod/linear pools. would be nicer if unRaid had multiple pools built in....? Quote Link to comment
AnnabellaRenee87 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Maybe the OS from this video?Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, AnnabellaRenee87 said: Maybe the OS from this video? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk hardware requirements stated as 8gb for a vm with openfiler.. which means it probably could run on half or maybe 25%.... openmediavault says it can run on 256MB. If I weren't so tight on ram for this particular server it would give me more options. I've got a backup running right now and it it's ultra low cpu usage too and boots in about 5 seconds. a bit fun to play around with too. 1 Quote Link to comment
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