TrueNAS Core Automatic Backups

[Mortifyd]

Disclaimer:  I'm an absolute newbie when it comes to this

 

I'm a couple of weeks away from building my 1st computer, technically a storage server or NAS... whatever you want to call it.  I'll be installing TrueNAS Core on mirrored Samsung SSDs and I'll have a pool with 4 x 3TB Seagate Constellation drives in RAIDZ2. 

 

My wife and I take lots of pictures with our phones and we've had lots of professional pictures taken of our kids and our family that I'm super paranoid about always having.  I have my primary laptop with a 1TB storage drive that's about half full with pictures, videos, and music.  My older laptop has a 1TB storage drive as well and I also have an even older laptop also with a 1TB storage drive.  I also have 2 external drives (1TB & 4TB), one of which is in my personal safe at home and the other is in the safe at the bank.  Whenever we transfer pictures from our phones onto my primary laptop, I update whichever hard drive is in my safe.  Then I take that to the other 2 laptops, transfer whatever's new and then swap out the drive at the bank and update it.  5 copies at all times.  It's always a huge ordeal and I'm hoping the storage server can automate some of this.

 

Finally my question...  What's the best way to make sure that my NAS matches what's on my storage drive on my 1st laptop?  I saw a YouTube video using Task Scheduler in Windows 10 but is that just a backup that you can use to restore or is that an actual directory that you can access files and pictures from?  I'm also seeing a lot of stuff about snapshots and backups being different and I'm wondering if there's just a way to have the network drive MATCH my storage drive on my computer.  Pretty much my storage drive on my laptop will be drive D: and the NAS will be drive E: and I want them to be exact copies.

 

This is my 1st ever forum post as well, so please be gentle.

 

 

Case: Fractal Design Node 804

Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F

Processor: Xeon E3-1270

RAM: Samsung 4 x 4GB 1333mhz ECC UDIMM

HBA: LSI 9211-8i

OS Drives: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB x2 (Mirror)

Storage Drives: Seagate Constellation ES.3 3TB x4 (RAIDZ2)

Power Supply: Seasonic Prime Fanless 450W 80 Plus Platinum

[SEAL62]

So as you describe it you want to have copies of your data on your NAS and on your laptop drive.

You could set up a VPN on your NAS (Open VPN as an example), connect your NAS storage as a network drive in your windows explorer and even access that when you are not in your home network (through your own VPN), so that if you go to a vacation as an example and your files on your laptop somehow get deletet you could still access thgem anytime in your network drive. to copy your data (either from your network drive to your local alptop drive or the other way round) you could simply use any kind of automated syncing program (Syncovery as an example) that does this task every so and so given time and can either only copy what has changed or make full new backups in case some files got corrupted.

Hope that helps