Arwen
February 1, 2026, 10:20pm
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There are several Resource articles, with attached scripts, that do allow local backups, (including to USB attached disks). I’ve written the first years ago on the old forum:
How to: Backups to local disks
Overview:
This subject comes up often enough that I thought I would start a post of how I do it. Specifically I back up my TrueNAS to a hot-inserted, locally attached disk, then when done, hot-remove and take...
Hi all,
I searched quite a while for a solution to backup parts of my Truenas storage contents to external USB drives.
I need external USB drives to be able to carry them around (offsite storage)
I wanted the possibility to hot-swap them to easily exchange a pool of USB drives (currently I use 3 different drives)
I just want to exchange the drives without changing anything in the config or initiate anything in the webui
The backup should run on a weekly cycle (Disk 1 Tue, Disk 2 Thu, Disk 3 S…
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