Couple quick questions on PBS

[-RYknow]

Hey all. Just got my backup server running, and I'm enjoying PBS so far! I do have a couple questions, though.

Out of the box, how often is a scrub run on a zfs pool? I read through the documentation and didn't see it mentioned there (maybe I missed it?). I also check for anything in the crontab and didn't see it there. I can create a monthly scrub via crontab. I was just curious if this was configured somehow and I'm just not seeing it?

My second question is; I'd like to make a copy of my back-ups once a month from PBS to another server I have running (not running PBS). Is it recommended or suggested to just add an nfs share to PBS, and have a cron job for an rsync to accomplish this? Is there any potential problems with this?

Thanks for you all you guys do. I've grown to love proxmox, and I think you guys are doing an excellent job!!
-RYknow

 

[dcsapak]

Out of the box, how often is a scrub run on a zfs pool?

by default the package zfsutils-linux creates a job in /etc/cron.d/zfsutils-linux that runs on the first sunday of the month ( if i am reading it right )
ofc you can add your own cronjobs/systemd timers for scrubbing

My second question is; I'd like to make a copy of my back-ups once a month from PBS to another server I have running (not running PBS). Is it recommended or suggested to just add an nfs share to PBS, and have a cron job for an rsync to accomplish this? Is there any potential problems with this?

while that should be possible, the easiest way is probably to setup a second pbs somewhere and use the integrated sync feature where the secondary pbs can pull data from the first

 

[-RYknow]

by default the package zfsutils-linux creates a job in /etc/cron.d/zfsutils-linux that runs on the first sunday of the month ( if i am reading it right )
ofc you can add your own cronjobs/systemd timers for scrubbing

Perfect, I will check this out. Thanks!

while that should be possible, the easiest way is probably to setup a second pbs somewhere and use the integrated sync feature where the secondary pbs can pull data from the first

I see what your saying, and I had a feeling that would be the easiest. I was just hoping to utilize a backup server I already have setup and running to backup all sorts of other data.

Thanks,
-RYknow