How Do I Backup All My Servers???

You used the wrong vermouth. A dry vermouth is typically a white. Try it again, you might like it more. Good choice on the orange. Brandy mixes well and has the flavors without the thickness you mentioned. A martini should be thin on the lips. A sweet vermouth like the rosso isn't going to do gin justice.

Why are 3tb drives unreliable?

If your replication percentage seems stuck at 0%, don't worry it seems to be a UI bug. Clicking on the orange "Running" badge will show you how much data has been replicated even if the UI stays at 0.00%.

What does a recovery plan look like in the event you lose your primary NAS server? Do you change the IP of the backup server?

Thank you for sharing. I would like to have seen how things were setup on the TrueNAS side. Eg. how to configure TN as the backup target.

Can I replicate snapshot from qnap to truenas?

Would you use something similar in an enterprise solution?

I'm thinking I will run proxmox backup server as a VM in truenas.

makes it real easy to use both on the same machine.

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I just came across you video. My setup is similar with a direct connection 10Gig card in server and backup. I've been unable to create a push replication task but pull works. The ssh connection gives an error of connection refused. Is there any reason I can't create the ssh connection in a push?

Hoe to be a drunk

yeah, you got me already with the intro ;D

what if your trunas server goes down?

Sorry, but the music is extremely annoying while you speak.

Hii, can you make ftp server for internal cctv i think its ok

Lol... I've been thinking about offsite backups, clicked your video, just to find out you don't have them 😅 Bandwidth is a problem. At home and at work I have 100mbit, but we have hundreds of gigabytes in data. We've been using rotating USB disks for that. It's not ideal, but better than nothing I guess.

At home I use Hyper Backup (Synology NAS) to C2. But at work this is difficult, because we backup complete VM's, while at home I mostly backup files which don't change that often.

Sooooo much hording :)))
I just can't imagine having a need for so much storage. On the other hand i don't have kids yet :))

I'm still figuring out backups in zero trust environment. The dataset is encrypted, meaning if the server gets restarted, I have to manually mount the encrypted dataset first (this is what I want), but then I'm fighting syncthing and rsync to run those periodically but only if the dataset is mounted.

Wouldn't borgbackup be better suited so you can backup all your servers regardless of the distribution and easily to offsite over ssh.

Do you worry about everything happening at midnight? The source NAS will simultaneously be snapshotting while the backup NAS will be replicating the snapshot.

I think the backup noise is faster than you talk are you drunk??

only 50mb up... I wish! Im stuck on copper so 50 down is the best out here lol

Liked and subbed to fund your offsite backup 😆

Hey Jeff, after watching this video again, I just noticed your "coaster"! 3.5" FLOPPY DISK! Love it!!! LMAO!!!

YOu get a like within the first 17 seconds of this one lol

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have just set up a proper backup server for my main truenas and this worked without a hitch. I even set up the connection on a direct link between each server so it's not hogging my network. I've got about 60+TB to transfer and that will take awhile on my simple 1 gig network.

Hi Jeff, fantastic reviewo on servers, not only entertaining but so information packed that its a super pleasure to listen to you and a great source of knowledge you share - not stops barred.

2.54 I was browsing via your videos trying to find the appropriate one to ask (since I ll be needing this method for a similar task). When you setup proxmox initially, do you need to assign for the management of proxmox the 10gbe port in order for backups to use this road instead of assigning a plain 1gbe port? Cant it be setup afterwards from proxmox's gui? What I mean is to use a 1gbe connection to access the gui and then afterwards to force proxmox to use the 10gbe road to transfer Vm backups from itself to the remote nas (also a 10gbe connection)
I have setup proxmox many times but this will be the first time that I ll have access to a 10gbe card and I LL be needing it in order to send proxmox vm backups to a remote TrueNas server (virtualized in another proxmox and not native machine. Instead of passing through the card which has 2x10gbe ports, I think ill create a vmbr on one of those ports and then assign TrueNas VM connection to that port during installation).

8.48 The private key generated aren t you supposed to paste it to the other server? Is this an RSA key or you can specify other type of keys as well?

your earnd my like after 8 seconds. cheers mate

Currently backing up my truenas to backblaze. was really easy to set it up and cost really is not bad at all.

What do you mean 3 tb drives are unreliable?

Hi with what you have built could you sore it off site, yes I understand that you only have 50 up but that only is the beginning. if you backed up daily then you would not have to worry about the the up time. I guess wishful think more than anything else. I have 350 G that I need to back up off site.

Hi Jeff! I dont think you've ever addressed this so here I go: could you help me understand your rationale for using VMs over Containers (either in Proxmox itself or in another VM using docker) in your personal use case? Curious to hear your thoughts as a savy power user! Cheers

Does this back up work for non truenas servers. We are running centos 7 and megaraid. In the video it seems like you called out zfs so does it only back up zfs backups

After watching a ton of videos on NAS builds, I finally got around to building 2 TrueNAS boxes with whatever drives I had laying around at the time. One is the main NAS I use at home, and the other is a backup for that NAS. I originally set them both up on the local network to do the initial replication to the backup NAS (multiple TB's of data), and then moved it offsite, and changed the SSH Connection settings to the new address where it is located, and it works perfectly. Have a firewall setup on both ends and setup a Site-to-Site VPN connection. From then on only incremental snapshots were sent over the interwebs. The main NAS backups up once a week and keeps the snapshots for 4 weeks, and the backup NAS has a monthly snapshot and keeps it for 2 months.
Been running solid for 4 months now, very happy with the setup, allowing me to sleep at night, not needing to worry about data loss again from a failed drive in my desktop PC.
Now all I have to do is .... upgrade the storage capacity .... in both .... sigh .... in due time


Awesome videos btw, looking forward to further interesting ideas to try.

My next home project will be playing with Proxmox and/or XCP-ng

My client systems run btrfs on root that run daily snapshots. Dara on /home is backed up daily on each system using dejadup which saves the backup to a mounted nfs share which is compressed and encrypted by my file server and sent off to its backup server daily which incrementally syncs to my offsite remote server (not a VPN, it's a rented rackmount) which I have weekly snapshots with 1 month retention enabled.
Each server can suffer two disk failures and they run btrfs because I refuse to join the cult of zfs

This video was very educational. As a uni student living in a university dorm I can’t have more than one server and the university blocks VPNs so I can’t offsite backup to my parents house. So at the moment I encrypt my data on my server and back it up to Backblaze.

Great job on the videos Jeff! I picked up one of these servers after watching several of your videos. My question is: did you flash the onboard SAS2008 into IT mode before you built the TrueNas server? As far as I have been able to find, it come in IR mode. I haven't build my server yet - waiting for my CPU.

That's one massive pr0n collection bro.

I'm currently making a second TrueNAS server for backups of my main server. However I want to make it an off-site backup server. Any suggestions for this?

Real men backup servers have raid 0 for faster write speed during backup

What is wrong with 3TB drives?

How did you configure the P2P part, everytime i try on my 2 TrueNAS boxes it craps itself (when linking with a cable between them) your help is appreciated ,and as always your videos are awesome 🙂

When is the Rsync Task going to get support for the integrated SSH Keys and SSH Connections? Having to generate keys on the shell for this is really inelegant.

Totally Jealous the house! At work, running 6 x Qnap Enterprise NAS's, with 3 of then RTRR'ing to the other 3 . Each Qnap has 8 x 8tb drives in Riad 5.

fyi... i use borgbackup and have 201TB backed up in 8TB. This seems to be a very expensive and inefficient backup. This easily could back up most of nas in less than half the space. My pc has 9TB on it and normal backup takes around an hour. i can restore my whole system in about 20 hours over gigabit.

On my lab - nothing, I figure I need the practice anyway.
On my productivity stuff - Pretty much everything I care about is either my steam library or in a google account.

Yeah I just do cold back up solutions in most cases only one drive needs raid mirror rest never change