Updated: August 21, 2026

Backup Strategies#

1 Backrest & Restic Google Drive Backup#

2026-09-01 Not used anymore

Encrypts TrueNAS/DSM network shares with Restic and stores them in Google Drive through Rclone. See Backrest & Restic Google Drive Backup Setup.

2 Proxmox PBS Backup to Google Drive#

2026-09-01 Not used anymore

Synchronizes the deduplicated PBS datastore from the UNAS-Pro NAS to Google Drive through MMDocker and Rclone. See Proxmox - PBS Backups via NAS with to GDrive.

3 Personal Google Drive Mirror#

HP1Clouds (10.1.2.219) mirrors marc.ouellet@gmail.com Google Drive content locally and indexes it into Nextcloud. See Google Drive Backup.

4 UNAS-Pro to TrueNAS Rsync Pull Backups#

TrueNAS nodes pull shared data from UNAS-Pro on staggered hourly schedules into local ZFS datasets. See Unifi UNAS-Pro Backup Strategy.

5 Local PBS Datastore on UNAS-Pro#

2026-09-01 Not used anymore

Proxmox VE sends deduplicated VM and LXC backups to HP1BackupServer, which stores the PBS datastore on the UNAS-Pro ProxmoxBackups share. See Proxmox Backup Server - Mounting an SMB NAS Share as a PBS Datastore.

6 Proxmox Host Configuration Backups#

Each Proxmox host archives its configuration and identity daily to the UNAS-Pro Software/PVEBackups share for later restoration. See Proxmox - Node Backup and Restore.

7 Pangolin VPS Pull Backups#

Proxmox LXC 102 pulls the Pangolin VPS configuration over SSH into local incremental and archived backups with integrity checks. See Pangolin Backup.

8 Paperless-ngx Document Mirror and HP1TrueNAS Backup#

Paperless-ngx stores its authoritative originals on HP1Docker at /mnt/paperless/media/documents/originals/. An hourly rsync mirrors those files to the UNAS-Pro Documents/Paperless share, where HP1TrueNAS (10.1.2.201) pulls the Documents rsync module into /mnt/RaidZ1SSDPool8TB/HP1UNASBackup/Documents/.

The file mirror uses a canary check, exclusions, --delete, and a dated SafetyNet for deleted or replaced files. This protects the original documents but does not include Paperless PostgreSQL metadata, Redis state, or the full application data. See Paperless for the complete document lifecycle and recovery limitations.