Hey guys,
I was looking through the app catalogue for TrueNas scale and noted that there are some solutions that create images, which would be particularly useful for creating images of drives in the server, namely the boot drive.
Are there any backups apps that people would recommend? I am looking for solutions outside of snapshots and ZFS replication, I know these exist 
Thanks,
P
Creating images of the boot device is not useful in the least.
For backing up what? To what?
Backing up the boot device, namely the TrueNas OS and its configuration has helped me in the past, so I am going to continue on the path as a fallback. However when I have created images of the drive, I have used applications outside of TrueNas (EaseUS via bootable USB), whereas it would streamline the operation using a TrueNas native app to create an image.
So far as the actual backup of other drives, these would be backed up to another local device on my network. I have not chosen specifically what I am going to back up, just looking to see if those who have used a TrueNas native backup app have any recommendations or insight into ones available.
You’ve made backup images of the boot drive? Why not just backup the config & re-import if it fails? Seems faster & more space efficient. Mirrored boot drives is also an available built-in option. Or both is best practice…
Outside of the boot pool, I could see making drive images as a backup quickly becoming very complex to restore. I’m not an expert, but re-making the pool with imaged drive could require some creative cli with new drive UUIDs, specifying txg states, etc. I’d either replicate or just lazily make an smb share & manually back up the important files to a second system if we’re talking for data outside of the boot pool over creating images.
If you’re just concerned with the boot pool, then I think you’re looking for something that is more complicated & (arguably) less convenient/efficient than built-in options.
