Rsync
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
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