{"id":501,"date":"2016-01-21T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/82.163.79.76\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:05:33","slug":"freenas-backups-and-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2016\/01\/21\/freenas-backups-and-share\/","title":{"rendered":"FreeNAS backups and share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking for a long time about solidifying and formalising my backup procedures. To be honest, my existing system is pretty awful, even though it&#8217;s caused me problems in the past.<\/p>\n<h2>Existing Backup solution<\/h2>\n<p>On my desktop, I have an SSD where my operating system (Xubuntu) lives. This drive is 250GB. I have an HDD, which is 360GB called &#8220;coffee&#8221;, which is where I store photographs, music, videos, download, etc. MOST of what I download ends up here, but some ends up on the SSD when I forget to move it.<\/p>\n<p>I also have numerous external hard drives, where a collection of media I&#8217;ve built up over the last decade lives, in a pretty awful folder structure. Some of this is duplicates, some of it isn&#8217;t, some of it is corrupt, some of the hard drives are dead.<\/p>\n<p>I know for a fact that the majority of photographs I took between 2006-2010 are gone forever, because the drive I was storing them on died.<\/p>\n<h2>Sarah&#8217;s files<\/h2>\n<p>Sarah&#8217;s laptop is slightly better in some ways, and much worse in others. It&#8217;s better because File History in Windows 10 is turned on, but worse because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>-The drive that the file history is on is one of my many external hard drives<\/li>\n<li>-We never connect the drive<\/li>\n<li>-Her filing system is non-existent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*It&#8217;s really bad. Her Music is so scattered and so poorly named that it&#8217;s going to take me a while to get it sorted out. I&#8217;m going to try out a few different tools for automatic tagging and renaming, see where it gets us.*<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0FreeNAS &amp; HP Proliant Microserver<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played with FreeNAS before, and I love how it works and what it can do, but I&#8217;ve never had any dedicated hardware to run it on. That&#8217;s changed now that I&#8217;ve bought one of these:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/product-images.www8-hp.com\/digmedialib\/prodimg\/lowres\/c03760124.png\" alt=\"c03760124.png (474\u00d7356)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve begun setting it up and getting a working FreeNAS install on it, but I&#8217;ve got a lot of thinking to do about how it&#8217;s going to all work and fit together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a few basic requirements:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Have regular backups from Sarah&#8217;s laptop<\/li>\n<li>Have regular backups from my desktop<\/li>\n<li>Have a network share configured on it for all of our pictures<\/li>\n<li>Have a network share for all of our Music<\/li>\n<li>Install the OwnCloud plugin<\/li>\n<li>Our phones must auto-backup images to Owncloud<\/li>\n<li>Owncloud must somehow share the storage space so that our images are visible from Owncloud and our phone images are visible on the network share<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once this is all done, I want to be able to do the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Access the music shares from Kodi, on my raspberry pi. The Raspi is hooked up to my amplifier, and I want to control what it&#8217;s playing from my phone.<\/li>\n<li>Access Owncloud from the internet. This will be a small project all on it&#8217;s own<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I need to make a few decision\u00a0about how the shares will work. If I&#8217;m already backing up everything from Sarah&#8217;s laptop, do I want to use Windows File History to make the backups, or something else?<\/p>\n<p>If I use File History, then it&#8217;s going to dump all versions of everything in a network share. I don&#8217;t really want all the old versions to be visible to every other device (and Owncloud) that is using that particular share or dataset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking for a long time about solidifying and formalising my backup procedures. To be honest, my existing system is pretty awful, even though it&#8217;s caused me problems in the past. Existing Backup solution On my desktop, I have an SSD where my operating system (Xubuntu) lives. 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