[Not Accepted] Backup over SMB (push and pull)

Feature Requests
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Problem/Justification
Backing up to/from a non-truenas/linux system

Impact
For those of us that are migrating from legacy NAS systems that actually have this feature. Or migrating from systems that don’t do Rsync properly. This would be a huge boon.

User Story
I have a long unsupported Netgear ReadyNAS. It has the feature of backing up to and from an SMB share. This is an incredibly valuable feature to me and others that have legacy systems like a ReadyNAS or a Windows Server, etc.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE MAKE THIS FEATURE HAPPEN!!!
How do you guys not see how this can be an incredibly useful feature.

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Don’t forget to vote on your own request…

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Hello everyone and happy holidays!
I back up two Windows 11 PCs to a TrueNAS SMB share using SyncBackFree software from 2BrightSparks (push). It works well and is efficient.

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iX’ path over the past few years seems to have been removing features from the core OS and moving them into apps, so I seriously doubt this request to go in the opposite direction will get much traction. Three backup apps are currently available (Duplicati, UrBackup, and Zerobyte), or of course you could use something like Veeam on your client machines.

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I am aware of other apps that can do this.

The simple fact that you can’t even mount an external SMB share in truenas is also infuriating.

I don’t want to have to get another app to do the job. My issue is related to NAS to NAS backups. Because I have different brand NAS’s at home and in remote locations. QNAP, ReadyNAS, Truenas while they can all do RSync. Trying to get them to actually rsync is an enormous pain in the ass. It never works.

Having to have another machine dedicated to backing up different NAS’s is also stupid because that’s adding a point of failure, latency and adding traffic over the network.

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Then between these two factors, perhaps TrueNAS is not the NAS OS for you?

AFAIK, it is possible to mount a SMB share to an app. Perhaps an app is a better solution than you give it credit for.

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Honestly, this is one of the use-cases for the syncthing app (we do this on the enterprise product). If you want to preserve permissions over SMB protocol though you need to have a common ID source between the two NAS appliances (this typically means AD).

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I’ll spare you a long winded reply but yes, many apps support SMB targets. Your assumption is spot on.

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As described in this thread, there are already capabilities available to solve the problem needing addressing. At this stage, we will not be moving this to the roadmap.