How to backup your FreeNAS data to Amazon AWS S3? - quick and dirty
At this moment, I own only one NAS server. In the past, I used to sync my most important data across to a server abroad, but the process was very convoluted and very often interrupted by power and ISP outages.
So I've decided to use the easy-to-use FreeNAS rclone configurator and set up transfer of data to S3 Glacier. It should protect my data from deletions and every week copy new data over to the S3 bucket.
After I have this running this solution for a few months, I will review it in depth.
Disclaimer: This is a quick and dirty how to and my first impressions. You are responsible for any charges and any other costs, any loss of data and for the security of whatever you upload to any cloud service.
00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - Creating the AWS service account
03:10 - IMPORTANT WARNING
03:36 - Another IMPORTANT WARNING
04:55 - Creating the S3 bucket
06:44 - Creating the Cloud Sync task
08:13 - IMPORTANT WARNING
10:27 - How does the encrypted data look like in S3?
11:28 - Data retrieval considerations - restoring the data
15:31 - How much does it cost?