Hello. I'm building my first NAS with OMV. I've learnt a lot in the process (file formats, transmission protocols, etc.), but I haven't been able to decide on the best backup/sync strategy. My current setup is OMV on an ODROID C2 with two 2TB hard drives (HDD1 and HDD2) formatted in ext4, no raid, no nothing. I want to achieve the following
- 5 shared folders in HDD1, to which I want to backup more or less regularly from my Mac (I've used chronosync app, which I believe is a complete GUI for rsync, I have also tried rsyncOSX with less success). This backup/sync can be manual or scheduled. There are also a few other shared folders with more static content (audio samples, movies, etc).
- Sync/clone HDD1---> HDD2, also manually or scheduled.
I am achieving point 1, but point 2 is giving me a hard time. If I do it using rsync in OMV, I have to create another set of shared folders (with different names than HDD1 because apparently I can't repeat them although they are in different discs) in HHD2 and create a job to sync each one.
Which would be the best way to do this? I have read a lot and realized RAID1 is not recommended for backup. Also I want to decide when to sync HDD1 and HDD2, which is nos possible with RAID1. SnapRaid sounds better, but I don't think it is recommended for my purposes.
thanks