How To Create a Backup Server With a Raspberry Pi 

Oh interesting, thanks for the tip! I didn't know about that and that seems pretty handy 😁

You're welcome, and thank you!

Yep! I love cheap and small projects to get your foot in the door 😊 and having some backups is better than none!

Yeah, for several years Btrfs had some trouble with raid 5 and 6, but as far as I'm aware that's been fixed for the last few years or so. And yeah, I've used it across multiple drives before, but only in a mirror with 2 drives, so nothing too crazy

I don't have a video for that, but that's definitely important too! I'll have to make one, but it looks like you can use rsync from Windows Subsystem for Linux, and that'd let you backup to your Pi like I showed using rsync For reference: thedatafrog.com/en/articles/backup-rsync-windows-wsl/

You should just need to plug the drive in, run "sudo fdisk -l" to see what the new drive's path is (usually it's something like /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc), and the run "sudo mount -t btrfs /dev/sdb /path/for/mount". If the drive uses a partition table (which is likely), then that fdisk command should show what partitions are on the drive, and the number of the partition will correspond to something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc2. This guide from linuxconfig.org explains what to do much better than I: linuxconfig.org/howto-mount-usb-drive-in-linux

I set it up for local network, but you could access it remotely if you secured it well. Things like SSH key authentication instead of passwords, or using a VPN would be good ways of securing it.

You have a small typo in your command: it's "btrfs-progs", not "btrsf-progs" - you have the "s" and "f" flipped.

@@BitGoblin Thank you so very much for catching my stupid mistake. Took me several attempts, even starting with fresh installed of raspberry pi os and still didn't notice the mistake. Hopefully it'll be useful to someone else too. This is the ONLY youtube video that I saw with BTRFS file system. Excellent video and thanks again especially with a very quick response. I'm trying to setup Samba next with tailscale vpn hopefully don't run into any problem. If you take request, can you please do a continuation on this one with Samba.👍👍👍👍👍

It's no problem, I'm glad to help! And yeah, btrfs has a bad rep since it had some pretty major issues several years ago, and most people have moved onto ZFS for larger storage arrays. I've found btrfs to be good for small applications like this, but to each their own. I've actually got a video on setting up a Windows file share, if that's what you're asking about with Samba! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1CPlMRnoHUs.html

@@BitGoblin Thank you that is exactly what I'm looking for. 👍👍👍👍