Hi folks, I’ve got a VM that is running my Firefly iii instance and Paperless instance as containers. A lot of work and time goes into managing these tools and I want to make sure I don’t lose them. This is my setup:

Turenas Scale machine 1 -> VM1 - Docker containers. The VM sits on its own dataset in Truenas.

I replicate the dataset to Truenas Scale 2 one a week and this machine only goes on on Sunday to save power.

I Rsync the dataset to a 3rd machine where there is a hard disk that I store offsite.

I recognize that I could lose up to one week of work but that is nothing compared to the human hrs spent building those databases from scratch.

Apart from snapshotting e rsyncing every day, what else could I do to make this more resilient without increasing CAPEX and OPEX costs?

  • trilobite@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    make me shake … brrr

    I’m going to try and see is I can get a VM running on the second Truenas server using the replicated dataset. I only use the second machine to duplicate datasets in case the first machine fails and have to rebuild it.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      That’ll do it if all you’re checking for is valid working operation after a restore.

      Make some notes that you tested it and what you had to do to get it working in the backup job as well. Could save you A LOT of panic in the future.