Scale 24.10 - Truecloud backup - how to retreive backups if my NAS is dead?

TrueNAS General
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I’ve just set truecloud backup, a storj account and so on.

Perfect, it works fine, i also tried to restore some data from Trunenas UI, works fine.

But…

What if I have to get my data back from storj, NOT FROM MY NAS ?
Imagine the situation where my NAS totally burns, and I need to retreive my data. What am I supposed to do ?

I spent couple of hours trying to figure out, find documentation, but I wasn’t abble to…

Any idea ?

2

Wouldn’t you just log into Storj and download your backups to whatever local storage you had available?
If your house burns with your TrueNAS, I would expect you would just create a new hardware and software setup of TrueNAS and do it in reverse otherwise

3

In that scenario, I’d install TrueNAS somewhere else (Even a temporary VM is fine), upload your config or otherwise restore your credentials, and then reverse the job to pull data back locally.

4

Not so simple as data is encoded as encrypted chunks…

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5

Well ok…

Thanks to chatgpt, i’ve been able to extract files directly from storj, using restic and rclone.

I’m putting that here, as it could help someone else.

I was running debian 12

  • Install restic and rclone

  • rclone config (S3 compatible storage, storej, you’ll need storj acces/secret key)

  • List snapshots:

    • restic -r rclone:<remote_name>:<bucket_name> snapshots

  • List a particular snaphot directories :

    • restic -r rclone:<remote_name>:<bucket_name> ls <snapshot_id>

  • retreive files

    • e.g. : restic -r rclone:<remote_name>:<bucket_name> restore <snapshot_id> --target /path/to/restore --include "/path/to/arborescence"

Each time you run restic command you’ll be prompted for your encryption passphrase in order to decrypt your data.

FYI, was downloading at 100-250 Mbps, from 1Gbps FTTH fiber connection in France