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Nay! This is way too costly in terms of energy. And FreeNAS is fine unless everything goes as expected. If not, you are really in trouble (BIG TIME, as long as you do not know about Unix in General and FreeBSD particularly), risking not to be able to access the data unless you REALLY know what you are doing. An advantage of that solution is that you can add as many devices as you wish to a zfs pool, virtually eliminating the need of ever (for all practical reasons that matter) having to use another share. For secure data storage, this is an overkill. Please also keep in mind that RAID1 != backup.
A still easy, quite cheap and absolutely reliable (compared to using old hard discs which are quite likely to fail) solution is to get two external hard disks and use a cronjob and rsync to get the data synchronized. AppStartSaver can be used to trigger a script as following:
This was written of the top of my head as an example, if you plan to use it, please let me know, I’ll put it through some testing then.Another option is to buy some space in the cloud (AWS S3, DropBox, GoogleDrive) and use it directly, with the above script or via a software like Arq.
I prefer the AWS cloud variant. Space as much as you want to (well, for any practical purposes), reasonably priced, accessible from everywhere and you do not have to worry about hardware nor do you have to carry it. It is not made for real time access, though.
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Urban EDC philosophy: Getting things done for yourself and others.If the freebsd based nas programs nas4free and freenas spook anybody due to their ufs and zfs only file format, the openmediavault software is based on debian and uses standard linux journaling which can be read from most any linux platform.
Uhm, there is no such thing as standard Linux journaling. Journaling is highly file system dependent and therefor is done in the file system layer.
While a Debian based distribution for building a NAS is surely nice, it have my doubts that broadening the efforts instead of combining them does any good. Reminds me a bit of the “awk” disaster: dozens of versions slightly different because of personal preferences and people not able or willing to adapt to a community effort. Imho this is the reason why the FLOSS movement is kind of stagnating when compared to it’s earlier years: because instead of efforts being combined, they are diversified on different software filling the same role.
Sorry for the ranting, but as an early adopter it is sad to see how much effort and workforce is wasted.
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Urban EDC philosophy: Getting things done for yourself and others.
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