A question about my backup strategy

[SmallBarky]

I few threads where something like this is discussed.

Backup to individual ZFS pools

The subject of backing up a TrueNAS server to external disks comes up often enough that I wrote a Resource in the old forum on the subject: However, today people have such large pools that the need is for multiple external disks. Yet, if those external disks are in a ZFS Striped pool, there is potential to loose the entire backup pool on loss of one disk. At least 20 years ago I thought a plain file backup scheme using multiple media would be a good idea. At that time I had tape drives and DV…

Single drive ZFS pool for cold storage? (With offline backups)

I have a very simple idea here and i just want to go over if this will work before i implement it. I have a couple of terabytes of archive data and it grows for about 500GB a year. Currently this is all on a rather new 18TB toshiba and another two 3TB toshibas for backup, all in NTFS format. I don”t need speed, i don”t need auto-repairing with a raid field. But i want checksum/data integrity checks and bitrot protection. So this is the idea: I build a small home server with an SSD that run…

And an open Feature Request

Local Backup to SATA or USB HDD

Problem/Justification Currently, there is no simple way of backing up to a local SATA or USB HDD. It is quite cumbersome to use cold storage as a backup solution. With cold storage I mean drives which are stored offline somewhere off site. Correct me if I am wrong or if I am missing something. Let me start by describing how I used to do my backups: Have a couple of HDD’s stored off site on a shelf. Bring them to my NAS in more or less irregular intervals. Connect via SATA hot swap. Import …