PBS Datastore Seperation

[andersbp]

Hey everyone.

I am in the process of splitting my Backup storage into two seperate storages on two seperate PBS instances . Sync is running smoothly atm and everything seems fine.

Question 1:
Whenever the sync is done and the 2 given namespaces are 'identical' can i then simply change the backup job to point the new PBS/namespace and continue where i left off?

Question 2:
My PBS instances are running inside LXC containers and datastores are simply 2 seperate zpools mounted into the containers. Therefore i am curious if i at a later point in time can simply mount and import my 'old' datastore onto my new PBS instance and expect it to work? (like creating a datastore that points into that given path)

Best Regards

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

1. yes
2. Also yes, but you'd have to manually edit /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg and update the path of the datastore.

 

[andersbp]

Hey,

1. yes
2. Also yes, but you'd have to manually edit /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg and update the path of the datastore.

1. Cool, thanks!

2.
So first create a datastore and then change its path in datastore.cfg? Or could i just manually add the datastore entry in the datastore.cfg in the first place?

Many thanks for the quick response

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Yes, just adding an entry should work. But make sure the entry is correct, maybe copying an existing one and editing that is a good idea.

 

[andersbp]

Yes, just adding an entry should work. But make sure the entry is correct, maybe copying an existing one and editing that is a good idea.

Yea, thats was also my intention.

Thanks alot for the quick support!