Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let everyone know about the method I used to seed the Datastore on a remote Server.
Overview of setup
1. Local Server has 2 ZFS Datapools - Data Pool (dpool) and the Backup Pool (bpool)
2. bpool is made up of a mirrored pair of drives.
3. The BPS datastore is on bpool
4. Do an initial backup of the local server.
5. Now split bpool
A. COMMAND: zpool split bpool bpool2 (reference: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gjooc/index.html)
B. Physically remove the hard drive(s)
6. Bring Hard Drives to remote server
7. Import the pool
A. COMMAND: zpool import bpool2 bpool
8. Edit /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg
A. add lines
datastore: store-name
path /bpool/path/to/store
9. Edit the owner file for each VM.
A. /bpool/path/to/datastore/vm/#/owner
B. Change the owner to backup@pam
10. Setup a Sync job per PBS Documentation.
11. If you have not done another backup on the local server, the sync job should finish in seconds, because you have identical data on both!
I just wanted to let everyone know about the method I used to seed the Datastore on a remote Server.
Overview of setup
1. Local Server has 2 ZFS Datapools - Data Pool (dpool) and the Backup Pool (bpool)
2. bpool is made up of a mirrored pair of drives.
3. The BPS datastore is on bpool
4. Do an initial backup of the local server.
5. Now split bpool
A. COMMAND: zpool split bpool bpool2 (reference: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gjooc/index.html)
B. Physically remove the hard drive(s)
6. Bring Hard Drives to remote server
7. Import the pool
A. COMMAND: zpool import bpool2 bpool
8. Edit /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg
A. add lines
datastore: store-name
path /bpool/path/to/store
9. Edit the owner file for each VM.
A. /bpool/path/to/datastore/vm/#/owner
B. Change the owner to backup@pam
10. Setup a Sync job per PBS Documentation.
11. If you have not done another backup on the local server, the sync job should finish in seconds, because you have identical data on both!
