What's a TrueNAS backup solution to backup other network shares?

[mhweb]

I installed TrueNAS Core on a server that I'll be using to make a backup of another server, and I would like to find a good easy to use backup solution. I came across Asigra, but it's pain to set up.

 

[ChrisRJ]

It would help to know which server we are talking about

 

[mhweb]

It would help to know which server we are talking about

This is for a home network. It's a TrueNAS server trying to backup shared folders from another Linux server.

 

[danb35]

TrueNAS really isn't designed to mount remote network shares. Seems like the answer would be, "any backup software that will run on your Linux server, and back up to the kind of network share (on your TrueNAS server) you want to use."

 

[mhweb]

Technically, you can install a plugin or VM in TrueNAS to backup anything to the storage. That's what I'm looking for.

 

[garm]

I’m a fan of pulling backups instead of pushing as in my mind that helps with air gap.. if you run your backup service from a VM you won’t have direct pool access as VMs work with shares.. set up a jail, give it a dataset to write too and run a schedule in TrueNAS that triggers the service in the jail and performed snapshots on the dataset, something like this;

1. take snapshot of dataset
2. trigger rsync to pull the data from the server
3. clean up old snapshots
4. write log
5. repeat

this way there is nothing that some malicious software on your server can do to the backup

 

[Forza]

Wouldn't rsync be an option?

 

[mhweb]

I’m a fan of pulling backups instead of pushing as in my mind that helps with air gap.. if you run your backup service from a VM you won’t have direct pool access as VMs work with shares.. set up a jail, give it a dataset to write too and run a schedule in TrueNAS that triggers the service in the jail and performed snapshots on the dataset, something like this;

1. take snapshot of dataset
2. trigger rsync to pull the data from the server
3. clean up old snapshots
4. write log
5. repeat

this way there is nothing that some malicious software on your server can do to the backup

Going to try this solution. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Forza]

I simply have rsync on the server fetching data from all clients. Faster than using samba/Windows shares too.