Is backing up @ActiveBackup directory to a thirdparty NAS enough to have an extra copy?

[dasecc]

Hi!

I love how and what ABB does, great stuff for backing up ESXi VMs in my case!

I want an extra backup of ABB files to a thirdparty NAS and the best would be if my Synology NAS wouldn't even know about me taking these backups (so it will not have access to the thirdparty NAS). I am thinking about an rsync or scp script driven from the thirdparty NAS and sucking down the /volume1/ActiveBackupforBusiness/@ActiveBackup folder and that's about it.

Of course in case of a problem with my Synology NAS, I am aware that I may need to get a fresh Synology NAS and upload the /volume1/ActiveBackupforBusiness/@ActiveBackup folder from the thirdparty NAS and somehow relink it, but that is fine with me, if this is doable and I can get my VMs back.

What do you think? Is this a good strategy? Am I missing something here? Will it be easy to relink the restored /volume1/ActiveBackupforBusiness/@ActiveBackup folder if it is a completely new and empty Synology NAS configuration? Can I be 100% sure that my VMs can be restored this way?

Also there is a "/volume1/@ActiveBackup" folder too. I don't need this, only the "/volume1/ActiveBackupforBusiness/@ActiveBackup" folder, right?

Thanks,
Daniel

 

[Telos]

Why not simply back up the shared folder where the backup lands?

 

[dasecc]

Thanks for the reply!
In the case of Active Backup for Business, the shared folder backup is not an option, because backing up /volume1/ActiveBackupforBusiness/ActiveBackupData folder would result in my case in 120TB data (the whole NAS has 3TB occupied), because this is a virtual directory that should not be backed up according to every tutorial. But I do not know what is essential to be backed up the way I described (with thirdparty and scp for instance).

 

[Telos]

I want an extra backup of ABB files to a thirdparty NAS

In the case of Active Backup for Business, the shared folder backup is not an option

OK... You totally lost me. I'll leave this to wiser ones to sort out.