I want to make an easy backup solution for my server with all it’s settings and files for a quick recovery. I got a couple of apps installed, some of which are ix-apps which don’t live in a dataset, just a folder on my pool, so I’m looking for a solution on that.
My end goal, is to just simply rsync, or otherwise copy the files from a backup drive, back to a fresh install of TrueNAS Scale, load in configuration and call it a win.
I’m not really experienced with that, I made replication tasks for my datasets, which worked when I recovered it, but there’s stuff missing, like apps that I’d like to be able to recover after disaster.
How to approach it? Is there a simple way that I’m missing?
Hi @GraphX any particular reason keeping apps as ix-apps other than tools which doesnt require recovery eg. bentopdf, dozzle, dockpeek and such?
So its general best practise to create separate datasets for each app and check each restore procedure by its own. ZFS Replication\Snapshot is good on blocklevel but you want to prepare a alternative method on Filelevel/Aplication Level as well.
My current backup strategy is: Prod. → ZFS Replication → DR. + Separate Local & Cloud backups.
