TrueNAS Scale cloud backup with file versioning

TrueNAS General
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Hello everyone! I would like to know from friends who use TrueNAS Scale, do any of you use the Cloud Sync Tasks or TrueCloud Backup Tasks option to backup TrueNAS, but using the backup solution with versioning, more or less on the same premise as we have with Snapshots?

My question is the following: I currently have a TrueNAS Scale with 12TB of data and I would like to use a cloud backup for offsite backup, but I would not like to keep just a sync of the data from the current version of the Dataset, but rather a way to restore previous versions of the files in case of problems, just like I do with the snapshot.

Normally when I use OpenMediaVault or Windows Server as a file server, I back up to the cloud with a tool like Comet Backup, Duplicati or something similar, but in this case, I would like to use only TrueNAS native tools to avoid problems, while maintaining the security of my data with the versioning that I can achieve with conventional backup tools.

If anyone on the forum can share how they perform a TrueNAS backup with versioning, as well as what storage they use (I usually use Backblaze B2) and the policy they use, I would greatly appreciate the help.

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What’s your budget? You could rent a virtual or physical server with sufficient storage, install Ubuntu or Debian with ZFS and use that as a replication target.

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I live in Brazil, so since our currency is weak, budgeting is really complicated. We are going to sync the main TrueNAS to another TrueNAS in the company itself in another department, but I would like to have versioning of the data on the TrueNAS in the cloud as well, if possible.

I had seen that Backblaze B2 also has the option to configure it, but I don’t know if it is the best option.

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I just watched a video from Lawrence Systems titled (TrueNAS TrueCloud: Affordable Secure Cloud Backup With Storj) about TrueCloud and it seems to do this data versioning part, just the way I want it!

I believe this could be the storage option I need for my data! If anyone uses it and can give me positive feedback, I would appreciate it.

I believe that since it is native and from IX, the integration with TrueNAS should be very good, but I appreciate any feedback you can give me.