Copy backups to external drive

[ippericsson]

Hi All,

I'm looking for a way to copy backups from our ZFS datastore and onto an external drive so that we can send it off site for our offsite DR backups, i tried just copying the files but then PMBS doesn't recognize them as a backup when we try to re-import them.

Anyone have any ideas how would be best to do what we need?

Thanks.

 

[Cookiefamily]

Hi, the easiest way of doing that would be to create a Sync Job to a Remote (that is not actually a remote, let me explain).
You can do offsite-copies to other PBS Servers with the "Sync Job" feature for datastores. In this case we want to sync not to a different PBS server, but to our same server with a different (external) drive.

To do this, create a "Remote" in Configuration->Remotes that points to localhost. Then create a datastore on your external HDD, click on that newly created Datastore, go to "Sync Jobs", create a new sync job, choose the "Source Remote" you just created earlier that points to localhost and set "Source Datastore" to the Datastore you want to copy to that external drive.

 

[ippericsson]

Thanks for the reply! Finally managed to get this set up and seems to be working!