Backup NAS4Free shares

[Alice]

Hello,

I have set up some shares on NAS4Free in a Windows environment. The idea is that users connect to NAS4Free shares from their PCs which is no problem.
The problem is that I am trying to find a solution to backup those shares - ideally to the cloud.
I have looked everywhere and unfortunately it seems that it is not that easy to do. I don't really want to use rsync.
Does anyone have a solution? So far it seems that the backup would have to be come from a Windows PC.

Thank you.

[raulfg3]

Use ZFS and snapshot, create a new dataset for each user/share and use cron or auto snapshot for backup.

[Alice]

Thank you for your response.
I would really like to find a good solution for an online backup. It does seem that backing up NAS4Free data from within
Nas4Free is a rather complicated process. It also seems that a reliable online backup of Nas4Free data can only be done
on a Windows machine which would back up the networked drive.
I would be very grateful for a good solution.

[shakky4711]

Hello Alice,

I do not trust any Cloud based solutions, especially when we speak about valuable or confident business data. I always prefer backup to a second local NAS which is physically separated from the first NAS, second backup line in business environment are tapes or USB/eSATA connected backups harddisks you can connect, disconnect and bring into a save location.

ZFS offers an easy build in solution, "ZFS send" is a great and easy way for backup tasks, take a look on it.

Shakky

[chris.shelton]

Use ZFS and snapshot, create a new dataset for each user/share and use cron or auto snapshot for backup.

Why create a dataset for each user/share? Why not just put every user and share in 1 dataset and just snapshot the whole thing?

[raulfg3]

Use ZFS and snapshot, create a new dataset for each user/share and use cron or auto snapshot for backup.

Why create a dataset for each user/share? Why not just put every user and share in 1 dataset and just snapshot the whole thing?

Because is more space used friedly to do a snapshot of certains users only.

eg: for normal user 1 snapshot a week, can be enought , for expecial users, 1 snapshot a day can be more desirable.

[chris.shelton]

Use ZFS and snapshot, create a new dataset for each user/share and use cron or auto snapshot for backup.

Why create a dataset for each user/share? Why not just put every user and share in 1 dataset and just snapshot the whole thing?

Because is more space used friedly to do a snapshot of certains users only.

eg: for normal user 1 snapshot a week, can be enought , for expecial users, 1 snapshot a day can be more desirable.

I see what you mean, in that respect then it is helpful. But for me, if I use multiple datasets then when it comes to setting user quotas using zfs set userquota@username=10G this will have to be done on all of them. I would like all of my users to have a 10GB quota across the board not dependant on the dataset, unless there is a way around this?

[raulfg3]

OK, I understand, but do not know how to set.

Please google a bit if is possible to do using latest SAMBA 4 used on N4F 10.x