Backup to Mini-NAS

[fischtbengel]

Thanks for the link to ebay. As far as I know the open-E DSS software does not support hot-plugging of external eSATA HDDs. It justs supports hot-plugging of usb drives. I´ve heard that you have to reboot the system after changing an external eSATA hdd. Can anybody test this and confirm the problem?

[techfreakz]

Hi there,

Something you may also want to consider....

I have a number of virtual machines and other systems that backup to a single SMB share on my open-e DSS v6 LITE system.

At a remote location (bridged to my own network via a wireless link) I have a cheap standalone NAS box that periodically (using cron) rsync's that single backup share to its own local disk. This works exceptionally well!

Setting up Open-E to do this was also very easy since its "Data replication" feature is really an rsyncd server.bg

The how-to I followed can be found here:

http://www.kb.open-e.com/How-can-I-r...otocol-_9.html

I can provide more information on how this was setup if it is interest to anyone...

I guess in your setup, all the drives would be configured exactly the same to rsync data from open-e at the same time each day, from the same share. And so it'd just be a matter of ensuring at least one drive was connected and power-up for the backup to run.

You should realise that open-e wouldn't be managing the backup process, it just makes the share available replication, which would be initiated by the NAS box's.

Cheers

TFZ