Hi, I have a Truenas Core VM installation on Proxmox.
I regularly perform full password backups manually, but I’m missing the pool backup.
VM backups are protected by both PBS and VEEAM on a dedicated PC.
I have a 32GB system disk and a SATA controller pass-through with two RAID 1 disks for data.
Today I upgraded Proxmox with a significant kernel and QEMU upgrade, and the Truenas VM wouldn’t start.
I was saved because I had a recent configuration backup, and the SATA disks had no problems.
Previously, I had a Synology, and its built-in tool was very simple: just plug in the disk and it would start backing up everything. I tested it by formatting the Synology, plugging in the external disk, importing everything, and the Synology was back to the same state as it was when I backed up.
I’d like to achieve a similar result with Truenas: connect an external USB drive to the Proxmox server, pass it directly to it, and have Truenas regularly perform a complete backup of the pool’s configuration and data. I’m not sure if and how it’s possible to have an entire Truenas backup on an external HD like the Synology does.
Glad to hear the upgrade went mostly well. Was that from 8 to 9? I see they have released 9.1.x so may give a go on one node to see how it goes.
On the backup question, I don’t know of a native way through GUI of accomplishing this. May I suggest you take a look at multi-Report from @joeschmuck as it can accomplish what you want to do. https://github.com/JoeSchmuck/Multi-Report
Check the documentation specifically in the Advanced section pg 34 where you can enable a scheduler for backing up the configuration files. There is an email and a save to local disk presuming your USB is available you can do that. Scripts is run periodically or daily through crontask.
Other HDD functions could be disabled if you choose not to use them.
Config-Backup
Configuration Backup Enabled (true)
o Set to ‘true’ to enable backups.
Save a local copy of the config-backup file (false)
o Set to ‘true’ will create a copy of the TrueNAS configuration in the path identified
below.
Day of the week would you like the file attached? (Mon)
o The day of the week to attach the TrueNAS backup file. Options are: Mon, Tue,
No, it was from 9.0 to 9.1, but the version of qemu and other components changed, which probably messed up my old TrueNAS installation.
For the configuration backup, I’ll see what I can do with scripts.
For the data, I’ll see if I can do a file-level backup with Veeam.
I’ll connect the external USB drive to the Veeam PC, which, being Windows, will have better control over its startup and shutdown.
