Long story short, I wiped a drive I shouldn’t have and lost some data. Now I’m thinking of setting up a ‘cold storage’ array of sorts with the stack of spare 3.5" drives I have laying around. I’m thinking once a year backup

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Is there an easy-ish way to backup a set of data that is spread across multiple drives without them all being mounted at once?

  • SirLagzBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    daily / weekly power on, rsync pull from your data, then power off?

  • webbkoreyBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My cold storage is another Truenas box that powers itself up once a month, pulls an rsync and shuts down 2 hrs after that completes. Not quite what you asked for, but I don’t have to think about it. The drives in that server are the smaller drives (2-4tb) that have been in the main Truenas box and been retired from that duty.