Hello unraid warriors

 

I am hoping there is some way to get backblaze setup for a consumer plan. I have their unlimited plan that I am just not able to take advantage of. I would like to backup straight from my unraid server so there is no other computer needed. 

I have already tried a windows VM to do this, however it does not allow me to upload a mapped network drive from within Windows. I have a share setup and I thought the simplest way would be to get a Windows VM setup and then map the network drive and let backblaze take care of the rest, however Blackblaze does not allow network mapped drives. 

Then I thought, I should use iscsi so I watched a video by space invader to set this up, only to learn that I cannot use iscsi on multiple machines. The idea was to always keep moving files into my share whenever I want and then the Windows VM would keep uploading it to backblaze in the background. But with the iscsi restriction, i stopped configuring iscsi altogether because I wont have access to write files to the unraid share from across the network. 

 

Can anyone please point me in the right direction on how I can achieve this? I just want to keep writing to the share whenver I want, and I would like backblaze to pick up any new files and back them up. 

 

Many thanks for your help.

29 minutes ago, alitech said:

I am hoping there is some way to get backblaze setup for a consumer plan

Backblaze does not support the scenario you describe with their unlimited/consumer plan.  NAS devices and network attached drives are specifically excluded, as you know.  You would have to opt for their B2 plan which can be much more expensive depending on how much you want to backup.

 

Many of us are using CrashPlan in a docker container which does what you want to do.  An unlimited plan is $10 a month.  I personally have over 11TB from my unRAID server backed up to the CrashPlan cloud.  Of course, I have local backup as well to another unRAID server and external USB drives.

 

CrashPlan is not perfect and there are other alternatives; however, they can also get expensive if you need to backup a lot of data.  CrashPlan is the least expensive unlimited option I have found at a fixed price; however, I have not looked for alternatives for several months so perhaps another option now exists.

Edited December 7, 20205 yr by Hoopster

Thank you @Hoopster. This indeed provides insight that I would not have considered. I used to be on crashplan until their unlimited consumer plan was pulled. I moved to backblaze because of that. 

 

It would be helpful to see if there are newer providers out there that would plug right in to unraid. I am happy to move to a new provider as backblaze is not worth all this effort. Their throttling is also very annoying. 

I have 16TB to upload. 

 

4 minutes ago, alitech said:

It would be helpful to see if there are newer providers out there that would plug right in to unraid

Go to the Apps tab in the unRAID GUI and search for 'backup'.  That will show you anything that exists as a docker container or plugin for unRAID.  Some of these (Cloudberry and Duplicacy for example) are just clients that require you to point to a cloud backup location like B2, Amazon S3, Google storage, etc.

 

As far as I know, CrashPlan Pro is still the only unlimited option with both client and cloud destination in a docker container for unRAID.

On 12/7/2020 at 10:29 AM, Hoopster said:

Backblaze does not support the scenario you describe with their unlimited/consumer plan.  NAS devices and network attached drives are specifically excluded, as you know.  You would have to opt for their B2 plan which can be much more expensive depending on how much you want to backup.

 

Many of us are using CrashPlan in a docker container which does what you want to do.  An unlimited plan is $10 a month.  I personally have over 11TB from my unRAID server backed up to the CrashPlan cloud.  Of course, I have local backup as well to another unRAID server and external USB drives.

 

CrashPlan is not perfect and there are other alternatives; however, they can also get expensive if you need to backup a lot of data.  CrashPlan is the least expensive unlimited option I have found at a fixed price; however, I have not looked for alternatives for several months so perhaps another option now exists.

 

Did you get 11TB backed up initially or is that what its grown too over years? I ask because I have 12TB to backup and read to not expect CrashPlan to be able to backup more that 10Gb per day.....at that rate it would take 3.5 years to do the initial backup. Do you find it to be that slow? 

48 minutes ago, SPOautos said:

Did you get 11TB backed up initially or is that what its grown too over years? I ask because I have 12TB to backup and read to not expect CrashPlan to be able to backup more that 10Gb per day.....at that rate it would take 3.5 years to do the initial backup. Do you find it to be that slow? 

I initially backed up 4-5TB.  It has grown to 11TB over about 4 years.  The initial backup took close to 4 months.  It was definitely faster than 10GB per day.  I think I was seeing between 1.5-2 GB an hour.  I did not get 48GB a day backed up but it was more than 40.

33 minutes ago, Hoopster said:

I initially backed up 4-5TB.  It has grown to 11TB over about 4 years.  The initial backup took close to 4 months.  It was definitely faster than 10GB per day.  I think I was seeing between 1.5-2 GB an hour.  I did not get 48GB a day backed up but it was more than 40.

 

Dang so yeah, sounds like 8-12 months to back up. That seems pretty crazy. Is it resource heavy? I suppose that depends on the hardware but if this is running in the background constantly does it tend to make a big impact on your system resources (hdd, ram, cpu).  

Edited December 24, 20205 yr by SPOautos

2 minutes ago, SPOautos said:

 

Dang so yeah, sounds like 8-12 months to back up. That seems pretty crazy. How much resources does it use? I suppose that depends on the hardware but if this is running in the background constantly does it tend to make a big impact on the system resources (hdd, ram, cpu).  

Negligible impact on system resources and it does allow you to configure how much it uses if resources on your system are a problem.  I did not notice any real impact on other system functions, but, I suppose that depends on your system specs.

 

At the time, my server was running on a 4c/8t E3-1245 v5 Xeon with 32GB RAM.