I have been searching for a cloud backup option that fits my needs. I have roughly 4TB of music files (flac and SACD ISOs). I currently backup to a couple of external hard disks. This is done by just copying the entirety of the data to each drive about twice a year. My data does not change very much anymore (not adding much music and not altering tags very often). I store one drive offsite and the other at home. Any option I chose does need to capture the incremental changes (few that they may be) and not require a fully backup everytime. It is also a requirement that I can easily retrieve files which have been incrementally backed up in order to check to see if the tag alterations have indeed been captured.
I started configuring AWS S3 Glacier. I then read that it is not possible for deletions I do on the server to get synced with the cloud backup. Is this correct? It is an absolute deal breaker. Is that a limitation of Glacier only or is it common to cloud backup.
+1 for what @NugentS has said. Storj is a solid option. But to answer your question, the limitation here as it relates to AWS is the rclone backend that TrueNAS uses, as well as the options available in the webui. Rclone is not 100% fully compatible with AWS S3. Check out this post:
Just be aware of a potential issue of using Cloud Sync Tasks to backup data (this will likley apply to any/most cloud storage providers)
Each file you backup will probably be a single object. If you are backing up large files then this won’t be an issue - but if you try backing up a million small files (as I tried for example) then that will generate 1 million objects which will probably exceed any normal allocation you may get (and therefore cost more).
I used duplicati to get around this issue - which worked - but I had intermittent issues with duplicati
There is nothing to stop you using rclone at the command line. Its just an executable.
It seems to me you’re doing things the complicated way. Why not create a share and manually copy your music to that share? You could even create a text file that has the date and time of the last time files were copied. That way you can update your backup share by sorting your music on your original system, selecting all files later than the date/time you saved in the text file, and copying them to your share?
Yes, it’s simple, but it does exactly what you want without the overhead and bloat that comes with someone else’s program…
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