Joe Paetzel has written a script and instructions for backing up a FreeNas server to a remote machine. The method uses Rsync so that only the changes to the files need to be transmitted after the first backup is done:
The general overview of how the remote backup program works is like this. First the program connects to the remote computer and rsync’s all of your files. It’s setup so that you can have four different sets of remote backups all running on different days if you want. I personally am only using one backup that runs every day. Next, it determines the disk usage of the remote backup disk. It then calculates how long the backup took. Once it has all of that done, it compiles an email with a general status at the top and the details at the bottom.
Checkout the whole post including scripts to automate the backup process easily.
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