I’m new to Linux and TrueNAS Scale. I have been experimenting with TrueNAS and OpenSSH for about a week. I’ve successfully set up Emby and Twingate Connector on TrueNAS. I can ssh to and from Windows and TrueNAS from the shell. Also, I believe I have setup the key pairs, ssh connection, and rsync task correctly. On the Windows side I’ve tried cgywin and DeltaCopy to put rsync on Windows, but without success.
My Goal: Transition from Windows to TrueNAS for my home server and backing up TrueNAS to my Windows 10 Pro machine,
Reason for this Goal - I use Crash Plan, which only runs (legally) on Mac or Windows to back up my data to the Cloud. (Crash Plan is $10/month for unlimited data.)
Can someone show me how to backup TrueNAS to Windows step-by-step?
Gratefully,
Tim
Hi and welcome to the forums.
So I guess you mean you’d like to backup your Windows machine to TrueNAS?
If so there are many ways you can do this. Are you after a full backup of your system including OS, applications and files or are you just looking to back your files?
If everything on your TrueNAS is in a SMB share, you can use ROBOCOPY to update the share to Windows. I use it to copy data from my Windows machine to a TrueNAS SMB share as a backup. You are just doing the reverse.
Windows has a folder, DriveBackup. I use ROBOCOPY to copy changes to TrueNAS BU2(smb dataset)/DriveBackup.
Thanks for the welcome. No, I want to go from TrueNAS to Windows.
Thanks. It’s been a while since I used Robocopy. I’ll have another look at it.
Ah apologies I misunderstood the question.
