Backup my FreeNAS to Dropbox or Google Drive?

[maijk]

Hello,
I have a FreeNAS with 8TB storage. I want to backup my photos on the NAS = 20gb auto to a online storage provider. Is this possible? Do I need to do this with Rsync? Or is there any plugin? Can you recommend a provider?

I can solve it by example dropbox, install it on a client computer and create a script and schedule it to back upp the data. But is there another solution perhaps?

// Mikke

 

[coolbone]

I too am extremely interested in how this might work. I would love to backup all my audio/video recordings that I produce at work.

 

[maijk]

My solution now:
NAS with FreeNAS, all data there.
Then i have a Windows Client that's online 24/7, I have installed Skydrive on this(of course any cloud storage client would work). I have also installed Deltacopy on my Windows client to support rsync.

I then rsync over my Pictures folder to the skydrive "share" on my windows rsync client. And from the Windows client Skydrive auto uploads all new files.

Not 100% the best solutions maybe but it works! :)

 

[cyberjock]

It's definitely not the 100% best solution, but it does work and its the best option available at the moment. There's no client software for Dropbox, Google Drive, etc for FreeBSD at the present time.

 

[imnoob]

hi, am wondering if anyone figured out the best method to sync freenas data into cloud based storage like google drive? hopefully automated or real time 2 way sync? thanks in advance

 

[cyberjock]

No, nobody has really discussed that because ZFS works best with very large pools(8TB+). And I don't know about you, but just checking the cost for a Dropbox or Google Drive of that size would probably be a bit... shall we say excessive. It's just not feasible unless money is no object. And if money is no object, then you can just pay some server farm to host a FreeNAS box that you can rsync to over your Gb fiber to the home, right?

So no, just not very well thought out. Not to mention that regardless of the cost, trying to sync that much data is just about impossible unless you are willing to let it run for months and months to sync just 8TB.

 

[imnoob]

Hi cyberjock. thanks. it does cost a lot to subscribe to multi TB cloud storage. I am hoping to subscribe 200gb and only sync a few selected folder to them. Any recommendation on achieving this? Probably will have to go through the jump machine path mentioned by maijk

No, nobody has really discussed that because ZFS works best with very large pools(8TB+). And I don't know about you, but just checking the cost for a Dropbox or Google Drive of that size would probably be a bit... shall we say excessive. It's just not feasible unless money is no object. And if money is no object, then you can just pay some server farm to host a FreeNAS box that you can rsync to over your Gb fiber to the home, right?

So no, just not very well thought out. Not to mention that regardless of the cost, trying to sync that much data is just about impossible unless you are willing to let it run for months and months to sync just 8TB.

 

[Yatti420]

Why not use BTsync?

 

[Brad1976]

Perhaps I'm out to lunch, but I have my FreeNass 9.3 setup with two mirrored 3Tb. I have my Windoze 7 mapped to a shared dataset and everything is functioning fine. I can read, write and even execute files directly from that share using my Windoze 7 pc... However, when I try to set the destination folder on my Goggle Drive sync application, Google Drive tells me "The location selected for your Google Drive folder is now writable. Please fix this or choose another location for your Google Drive folder." Is there possibly some sort of share issue I'm not thinking of, or would this be a Goggle Drive issue?