keboose
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I am going to be re-configuring/updating my remote FreeNAS box, and completely re-building the backups I store there with replication. I would like to double-check with somebody to make sure I'm doing this right, and not messing up my backup datasets in the event I have to restore them.
This is how my main server's pool is set up:
There is also a folder (not a dataset) under the main pool that stores all my user data:
I have a recursive snapshot task for the four child datasets, and one for the main one,
The pool on the remote server is
I ask because, looking at the remote file system, it seems everything is nested within itself. See the screenshot I attached. If I explore the file system via ssh, I see the same thing:
This is how my main server's pool is set up:
Code:
Drive_Pool/ ........../cloud #(dataset for my Nextcloud instance) ........../iocage #(jails) ........../jails1 #(still have one jail running 11.1, working on moving it.) ........../temp #(large media files that don't need to be backued up)
There is also a folder (not a dataset) under the main pool that stores all my user data:
Drive_Pool/data
.I have a recursive snapshot task for the four child datasets, and one for the main one,
Drive_Pool
(which I have set up a NON-recursive snapshot to backup my /data
folder.) I have a replication task for each one to my remote server, but I don't know if I have configured them correctly.The pool on the remote server is
Remote_Pool
. I replicate the main dataset Drive_Pool
to a child dataset I created called Remote_Pool/remote
. All of the other snapshots I made (except for /temp
,) I replicated one level into the remote dataset, so for example I set Drive_Pool/iocage
to sync to Remote_Pool/remote/iocage
. Is that the correct procedure?I ask because, looking at the remote file system, it seems everything is nested within itself. See the screenshot I attached. If I explore the file system via ssh, I see the same thing:
/mnt/Remote_Pool/remote/iocage/iocage
. This doesn't look right to me. When I re-build this backup, how should I set up the child snapshot/replications to avoid this?