Hi,
After some help from this forum, and a lot of reading, experimentation and failures I am now able to use Duplicati, from a FreeNAS Jail backup my SMB style data on the FreeNAS to another NAS (Non FreeNAS) on my LAN. Thank you for that.
I have six different jobs defined, which range from 2GB to 10+TB and I have made some adjustments to things like blocksize and remote volume size on the large of the jobs.
I have exported each job to a file, and stored that file safely away somewhere. I also snapshot the jail and copy the snapshot to an alternative pool just in case I lose the pool.
It does occur to me however that there is something missing in Duplicati, only required in the event of a catastrophic failure of the overall system that would require a complete rebuild. If we assume that I lose my FreeNAS Server totally (hopefully unlikley) and have to rebuild, maybe on new hardware. I can re-install Duplicati in the jail but I may or may not have access to the job details and I do not want to have to rebuild databases that in some cases are apparently taking days to rebuild.
Would it not be sensible to do the following:
With each duplicati job, export all the job details, databases etc to the destination folder encrypted with a suitable password (which I would have to remember) so that inthe event of a rebuild I can point at the destination folder and quickly download everything I need for that backup job so that I can quickly start the laborious process of a restore.
Archiware Pure (VM Backups) does something like that - the config is stored with the backups. If I have to rebuild the server - I just point the new install at the destination and everything is golden.
Also the ability to export the duplicati config and databases, on a schedule with no interaction to a specified location would also help with the disaster recovery process
Apologies if this already exists some of the stuff I am reading is quite old.