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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] NAS home backup?
From:       Paul Groves <paul.groves.787 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-07-11 16:37:37
Message-ID: 6302423.JS92HPZ8db () dt-paul-01
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On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 12:55:40 Thomas Taylor wrote:
> I would like to set up an older desktop system for backing up five home
> systems over the internal LAN.  This would probably be a scheduled weekly
> job involving both Linux and Windows boxes.
> 
> What hardware other than the computer, LAN card, and LARGE (2+ TB-wife has
> LOTS of photos) disk would be needed?
> 
> I'm thinking that rsync would be the best for this use but would entertain
> other methods.  I have a bash file that I got from someone on the OS forum
> several years ago but looks fairly simple to modify.  My main question
> regards backing up from the two Windows boxes.  Would that need Samba or
> some other software?
> 
> The backup box has:
>   Asus M5A??  AMD socket 3 CPU
>   4 GB RAM
>   2+ TB hard disk
>   old PCIe video card (Nvidia ?) for setup only
> 
> 
> Thanks, Tom
I have two boxes running freenas both with 2x 1TB 2.5" WD Blue HDDs in a ZFS 
mirror.

Every night the NAS wakes up the backup NAS with WOL at 1:50 then an rsync 
task is run for documents and media at 2am to backup the disks on the first 
NAS to the second one. It works perfectly and after the initial sync only 
takes on average 10 mins to half hour each night.

Perhaps you could do something similar but with bigger disks (maybe 2x3TB in a 
mirror RAID??) for your multiple computers? I personally do not store any 
documents on my desktop / laptop, I keep them all on the NAS which I can 
access via SFTP, CIFS and NFS.

FreeNAS supports CIFS (Samba) NFS and AFP (Apple File Protocol) out of the box 
as well as Rsync. All configurable with the GUI!!! :D

I would personally look for a Rsync server for windows and use wolcmd on the 
windows pc to wake up the backup NAS (or wol from linux / wake from BSD).

As for hardware, my setup is running fine with the 1Gbps NIC in each box with 
no bandwidth issues even with DLNA on the main NAS. Just make sure there is 
plenty of RAM in the NAS (8GB +) to handle the RAID and possilbility of 
multiple file transfers.

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Paul Groves
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