How To Backup Your FreeNAS 11.3 Using ZFS Replication

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[billclark]

Perfect timing for this video -- going to bail on the OMV box and build a second FreeNas box ... thank you for all your great videos -- you obviously enjoy your work !

[muhammadbutt]

Every time I think of a new thing to implement and look for how to do it. You already have a wonderful step by step guide. THANKYOU!!!!

[farioko]

FreeNAS has such a beautiful UI, just WOW!

[philippepfeiffer]

Hi Lawrence. Excellent Video, running FreeNAS since many years, but just did my first FreeNAS Replication setup for backups today . Well done, thanks

[FunMushizzle]

Love your videos... been a FreeNAS fan for a decade or more now. They just work when you build them right, proper hardware you just forget they exist they run forever reliably.

[brucekeen]

An excellent explanation of this replication. I’m ordering my backup freenas now.

[tcfls]

Great explanation! For those interested, I just tried last night and the replication through the GUI works equally well to a generic linux ZFS dataset.

[isaaclee-mort]

I got a good deal on 24 sas drives, it worked out around £5 per drive, it quickly turned into one of the most expensive set of drives when I had to get a system to put them all in. Ended up with a 720xd

[adamw]

Thank you for the guide! Just setup my backup system according to the guide in 15 minutes. Now waiting for 9 TB of data to be copied over :-)

[Maisonier]

What are the best practices? Using freenas as a Virtual Machine on Windows? using a VM over Linux? using Proxmox and virtualize a Ubuntu and install Freenas, using direct Freenas on a raid 1 with 2 ssd?
If you have 2 servers to redundancy, use both as a mirror, share the data?

[blinddog]

So, I have a zfs pool (striped) of one 4 tb drive on a XigmaNAS box.

I am getting another 4 tb drive soon that I want to use for backup purposes.

Can I set up that 2nd 4 tb drive as another zfs pool and replicate from one to the other? Or is there a more preferred approach>

[TheBeardedLibertarian]

for home use nothing beats this replication to the same system IMHO, no need for another box in the house :)

[alabalistic]

Greetings.
I have a question and can't find a user friendly answer in Youtube.
I have build my first Freenas from old PC with one 8TB disk, as time go on and I start loving my Freenas and migrating to Better hardware I bought same model HDD and now I want to Mirror my Pool. So my question is, how easy it is? What are the best Practices?
Thanks for the great show.

[MrTechnician_]

Perfect! Could i feasibly replicate to another pool, eject the drive(s) and take them offsite? I don’t currently have a second freenas box and would like an offsite backup. I would use backblaze but my upload speed is far too slow.

[danielreichelt]

A big thank you. I did my first replication task ever from a 11.3 box to another 11.3 box. Both using zfs. It worked, it was easy, it was fast.

[alpachino]

Pushing or pulling data - is one faster than the other?

[chromerims]

Warmest wishes Tom. All the best for CNWT combo!
1:40 -- TN Replication requires the source and the destination to be on ZFS; what I needed to confirm clearly from an expert like you.
For some use cases like cold storage, I prefer ext4 backup, for its universality and closer to simple PNP ability.
Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.

[ygtcv]

good video, does anything need to be done to clean up those snapshots?

[DiStickStoffMonoxid]

Thank you very much for this video! I have one question regarding the replication and its workings:

If i were to set up a backup server with single disk vdevs because the machine would be only up and running once a week and for cost efficiency. If one of those drives would fail, would the replication need to restore the whole snapshot or only the lost data on said drive? (talking private use case here, nothing business related) thank you very much!

[Sellular.]

It seems like everytime I'm learning something new in my homelab, you JUST posted a video about it. I just started looking into replications to an older end optiplex last night and you just answered some of my questions with a video today!

Quit reading my mind! Or don't :D