I have a napp-in-one system ( napp-in-one on dell T20 - my planned setup ) running nicely for almost a year. I set out with the idea that I will add backup after I get the server setup. It's been a year and I need to set up my backup. I read through threads and documents, but I cannot visualize what I need to do to get backups.
My requirements to start with are pretty simple
1. I want to backup/copy certain folders with encryption to another disc. The size of this data will be under 500G. (personal photos and videos and important documents). The backup should be incremental. (ZFS snapshots seems like a great idea, but can I snapshot a folder inside a pool? If not, I may have to break my setup into pools that need to be backed up
2. How can I use the encrypted backup to access files somewhere else. In my past backup strategy, I was using a simple folder sync application that was copying folders from one location to my backup location and it was simple to access my backed up files
3. Here is my setup (without the pfsense and the 1 TB disk is not on the HBA) - In this setup how do I use that 1 TB disk for backup? Can I create another omniOS vm that uses that 1 tb disk and then replicate the snapshot from my napp-in-one to the backup VM? (I am sure my terminology is muddled, since that is my level of understanding at the moment)
Any pointers to guides/how to of the backup set up will really be appreciated, even if they are somewhat different.
Once I figure out local backup, I intend to backup the same to some cloud provider yet to be determined. The purpose of encryption is so that I can move the data as it is to cloud. I don't really need encryption for my local backup
Thanks
My requirements to start with are pretty simple
1. I want to backup/copy certain folders with encryption to another disc. The size of this data will be under 500G. (personal photos and videos and important documents). The backup should be incremental. (ZFS snapshots seems like a great idea, but can I snapshot a folder inside a pool? If not, I may have to break my setup into pools that need to be backed up
2. How can I use the encrypted backup to access files somewhere else. In my past backup strategy, I was using a simple folder sync application that was copying folders from one location to my backup location and it was simple to access my backed up files
3. Here is my setup (without the pfsense and the 1 TB disk is not on the HBA) - In this setup how do I use that 1 TB disk for backup? Can I create another omniOS vm that uses that 1 tb disk and then replicate the snapshot from my napp-in-one to the backup VM? (I am sure my terminology is muddled, since that is my level of understanding at the moment)
Any pointers to guides/how to of the backup set up will really be appreciated, even if they are somewhat different.
Once I figure out local backup, I intend to backup the same to some cloud provider yet to be determined. The purpose of encryption is so that I can move the data as it is to cloud. I don't really need encryption for my local backup
Thanks
Last edited: