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Thread ID: 96053 2008-12-27 07:35:00 Backing Up Freenas Server stormdragon (6013) Press F1
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732740 2008-12-31 09:58:00 Wouldnt RSYNC do it?

Yes, he already said someone suggested it to him but it might be a bit unreliable.
beeswax34 (63)
732741 2009-01-03 09:06:00 Yes, he already said someone suggested it to him but it might be a bit unreliable.

Heh,I saw it this time.
Ive never heard of it being unreliable,its quite mature isnt it- more likely user error?
michael_elliston (11766)
732742 2009-01-04 09:56:00 Anybody got any easy suggestions on how to automatically backup my freenas server either to another system on the network and to another harddrive?


:thanks

To back up, say all the home directories, to another disk on the same machine, or perhaps another *nix machine mounted via NFS, just do something like:

tar czvf /path/to/other/backup.tar.gz /home.

Put that in root's cronfile. If you don't want each new backup to overwrite the previous (which the above command will do), do something like this:

tar czvf /path/to/other/backup.`date -%d.%m.%y`.tar.gz /home

If you want to backup to a remote (*nix) machine, you need to have an account on that machine, and ssh(d) and rsync installed/running on both ends. Do you have this? Is the other machine running FreeBSD?
vinref (6194)
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