Restic Backups on TrueNAS

I’ve been backing my homelab up with duplicacy (See Backing Up the Cluster Using Duplicacy), but I’m fed up with it returning a 0 exit code even if there’s a problem with the backup. This makes me have to do a lot of annoying rummaging through log output to be sure that a backup actually worked, so I decided to switch to restic. In this blog entry, I’m going to explain how to create a jail in TrueNAS, mount directories you want to back up into the jail, install restic, and how to use it to back up to Backblaze b2. ...

January 13, 2023 · 11 min · 2237 words · Me

Backing Up the Cluster with Duplicacy

Motivation I wanted to ensure any data I put into my ARM k3s cluster is backed up to prevent data loss. I no longer recommend duplicacy. Instead, read my article on restic backups on TrueNas instead. ...

September 1, 2019 · 10 min · 2087 words · Me