Stumbling through getting a proper backup regime in place. I have an unraid system running a proper array, and am trying to setup backups for two separate machines (one windows one debian). I’ve successfully setup a file share, and have duplicati running. Are there disadvantages to just setting the network folder as the destination for the backup? It seems a little hamfisted (and the data rates are terrible).
It seems like there’s probably a better way to do this…
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think you’re asking about the Samba share? If it works, there’s no real downside except the speed and general wonkiness of the SMB protocol.
As I would rank the different options:
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 week ago
SMB isn’t really all that slow these days.
I have NFS and SMB shares set up (same directory) and copying files to/from them maxes out my gigabit LAN.
SSH on the other hand is slower, because there’s more CPU overhead.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
All data and benchmarks would disagree with you. If you find something showing that SMB isn’t slower than the others mentioned, I’d love to see it.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is really helpful thank you! I think it’s samba share? Whatever Unraid has just baked in and calls “shares”.
Googling rsync that looks like it’ll work, and faster is better!
While I do want true backups of a few drives (as in: if a drive fails, restore the backup to a new drive, physically swap it out, and you’re good to go), the majority of the data I’m just looking to have it “backed up” (as in: all of the files are present in more than one location). The majority of the data is ~18TB of media for my plex server. My unraid is: 1x 2TB, 1x 10TB, 1x20TB and 1x20TB(parity). It sounds like Rsync-ing the 20TB drive with my plex media and the 20TB unraid disk would get me what I need?
Thanks for the pointers, getting a few things to google is incredibly helpful.