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Use external SATA cloning dock to expand NAS
My RN528 came with 8x4TB Toshiba HDD’s. Using X-RAID I have about 21TB of usable space (if memory serves, might be a little higher). Presently about 10TB is populated. Considering swapping in 4 1...
FWIW, my main NAS is an RN526, the backups are an RN524, an RN202 (using jbod), and a Pro-6 with upgraded RAM (and running OS-6). One backs up on Monday, Wednesday, Friday; the second backs up on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday; the third back ups on Sunday. All are UPS protected (as are my switches). The backups are on a power schedule, so normally only on during backup (or during scheduled maintenance jobs). So at least one backup NAS is always off (and most of the time, all three are off). The backup NAS also have all file sharing protocols disabled (only set up for rsync).
This is overkill, but I happen to have those NAS, so I figure I might as well use them. If/when one of the back up NAS fails, I'd switch to having one back up daily (Monday - Saturday) and the second back up weekly (Sunday).
jimk1963 wrote:
Is there a user friendly 3rd party software tool that can be used to backup one NAS to another, instead of using the clunky ReadyNAS OS?
As I mentioned in the hacking thread (that you are also posting on), I personally don't run apps on the NAS itself. So I'd limit myself to software that runs on a separate PC. That wouldn't be very efficient, as all the transfers (and analysis of what needs to be backed up) would need to go through the PC.
I have set up share-by-share backup jobs on the backup NAS, and those use rsync. I haven't seen seen rsync miss files, or back up jobs get aborted. That might be because the backup NAS are running the backup jobs.
jimk1963 wrote:
I've been investigating cloud options, liking Backblaze and maybe Synology after first look. More research to do.
Personally I use CrashPlan running on a PC that has the data volume mapped to a drive letter. Backup speeds are slow (and likely full recovery would be too). But I like the price, and the purpose is only disaster recovery. One drawback is that CrashPlan doesn't back up tib/tibx or vhd/vhdx files.
Though I could shift that to putting one of the backup NAS in a nearby family member's home.
Thanks StephenB ,
I wasn't very clear re: RSYNC - what I meant to ask was, is there an external PC-based program to run backups.But yeah, I get that efficiency would suffer, not to mention more complication I guess.
My RSYNC backup scripts all run from the main NAS (RN528) rather than from the backups, like you're doing. I will give that a try, maybe that's why I'm having intermittent success with it. Great tip.
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