Backups are made manually from the CLI. These are made on a regular basis.
home dataset is copied to a 4TB WD Greenmedia dataset is copied to a 3TB WD Green# Unlock the encrypted drive - X = size of drive, Y = letter
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdY wd-green-Xtb
# Mount the unlocked partition to a folder, X = size of drive
mount /dev/mapper/wd-green-Xtb /media/wd-green-Xtb
# Copy the data with rsync (make sure to edit to the dataset)
rsync -avvP /mnt/essential-waitrose-pool/(home/media) /media/wd-green-Xtb
# To Unmount
umount /media/wd-green-Xtb
cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/wd-green-Xtb
~~Every three months irreplaceable data (Archive, Photography, www-data, etc) is backed up to Backblaze B2 using Synology Hyper Backup which encrypts it before uploading. A single previous copy of any updated files is kept before the oldest copy is purged.~~
This strategy is being reviewed after the transition to TrueNAS and is not currently applicable.
Important documents are saved to Google Drive and therefore copies of them are synced to end devices.
Snapshots of Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p’s containers and VMs are automatically taken weekly to a share on Synology DS218.