How to replicate to USB HDD?

[dropio]

Hello, I run a small TrueNAS at home for backup purposes and now want to set up off-site backups for it. The best way for me would be if I could alternately connect different USB hard drives to which all data is then duplicated automatically or by a click in the UI. What is the easiest way to achieve this?

In the UI, as far as I can see, replication tasks are only possible via SSH and I don't see a way to use the plugging in of a USD-HDD as a trigger.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[kiriak]

I use Tasks -> Replication Tasks in GUI
to replicate specific Datasets (and their snapshots) I want to USB HDDs.
The ext USB disks are encrypted as I keep them in my work's office.
I use different tasks for datasets of different importance.
When I bring the disk at home every few weeks, all I have to do is to go to the GUI and import the pool and press "Run Now" at each task I want to run.

You should expierement at first on both creating the replications and being able to read your data from them before putting in production.

 

[Arwen]

Their is a resource on backing up to local disks;

How to: Backup to local disks

How to: Backups to local disks Overview: This subject comes up often enough that I thought I would start a post of how I do it. Specifically I back up my TrueNAS to a hot-inserted, locally attached disk, then when done, hot-remove and take...

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It may help, though it is all command line driven.