Comments on: FreeNAS & online snapshot backups

By: hello

hello — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:32:10 +0000

fyi, you can SSH into your dreamhost server and setup a cron.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:43 +0000

I don’t control my online server. It’s hosted (dreamhost).

By: Khash

Khash — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:18:33 +0000

Question: Why do you need to setup a cron on your Freenas to trigger the pull on your online server? Couldn’t that be achieved by setting up a cron on your online server to start pulling?

By: Dan Merschi

Dan Merschi — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:04:44 +0000

Hi Tim
If you take a look on my script I use rsync -link-dest option to hardlink dir1 on dir2, like that you don’t have to use ‘cp -al dir1 dir2′.
My answer is late, but sorry.

Regards,
Dan

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:32:50 +0000

I’m using rsync to backup from a development server (fedora), to the box with freenas installed, this then executes the rotation of each backup – needing to use cp -al. I haven’t yet worked out how to replicate this with the freebsd supplied with freenas. I found some reference to cpio, but this doesn’t work with freenas.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:25:29 +0000

There seems to be some confusion. The backup script which I showed here is called rsync_snapshots.sh and is on my online server (plutinosoft.com) which has cp -al option. It is executed remotely using ssh by freenas using a cron job. This script connects back to my home freenas (using dynip – sylvain.homeip.net) and rsync from it onto my online server so it’s pulling from my freenas but the cp -al is executed on my online server (where the backups are)…

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:46:35 +0000

Hi Dan, how did you get around not having the cp -al option?

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:59:49 +0000

The script is not running on FreeNAS, it is running on the server which does the backup (pulling from FreeNAS) so it’s working fine.

By: Dan Merschi

Dan Merschi — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:13:46 +0000

Nice script, but you can not run this script on FreeNAS just because FreeBSD ‘cp’ don’t support ‘-a’ option.
Anyway, I fix my script and now is running as expected.

Regards,
Dan

By: B1ng0

B1ng0 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:29:38 +0000

Cool! how about submitting that script as a patch to FreeNAS so that they can integrate it and add it to their webinterface for easy configuration :)