Stablebit's suggestion of doing full disk backups of every drive in the pool isn't realistic; I don't have a 6 TB USB drive, and even if I was willing to buy two of them (to rotate on/offsite) it would break down as soon as I got to the point of needing to use three disks instead of two in the server.
At the same time, about 80% of the data on my current WHSv1 server is computer backups; and while there's no reason not to be greedy about how many I maintain onsite as long as diskspace is available I could do with a much smaller subset offsite (especially since my rotation rate will probably be only ~6-12 times/year).
For my media folders running synctoy between the WHS share folders created in the pool and an external HD seems like it should work.
I'm not sure how to handle client PC backups. If there's any structure in the files are created it's not discernible with only a few days data from one computer backed up; so writing a script to pull a subset of snapshots out doesn't seem practical.
This has me thinking I might imagesneed to run two parallel backup tasks. My daily packrat backup (keep, 99 most recent daily, weekly, monthly backups) and a more limited diskspace friendly backup suitable to being rotated offsite (most recent daily, and a few monthly backups). The question then becomes if I can configure WHS to run multiple parallel backups of my computers that are saved in different locations; or if I'd need to turn to 3rd party backup tools that use my server as a write target,
At the same time, about 80% of the data on my current WHSv1 server is computer backups; and while there's no reason not to be greedy about how many I maintain onsite as long as diskspace is available I could do with a much smaller subset offsite (especially since my rotation rate will probably be only ~6-12 times/year).
For my media folders running synctoy between the WHS share folders created in the pool and an external HD seems like it should work.
I'm not sure how to handle client PC backups. If there's any structure in the files are created it's not discernible with only a few days data from one computer backed up; so writing a script to pull a subset of snapshots out doesn't seem practical.
This has me thinking I might imagesneed to run two parallel backup tasks. My daily packrat backup (keep, 99 most recent daily, weekly, monthly backups) and a more limited diskspace friendly backup suitable to being rotated offsite (most recent daily, and a few monthly backups). The question then becomes if I can configure WHS to run multiple parallel backups of my computers that are saved in different locations; or if I'd need to turn to 3rd party backup tools that use my server as a write target,