PBS initial offline sync

[GabrieleV]

Hello,
I wish to "seed" a remote PBS instance using an external media, because the online Sync job via WAN takes forever.
Successive daily syncs will work in a decent time...
Is it possible ?

Thank you,

 

[mac.linux.free]

we all want this

 

[_gabriel]

why not ? (not detailled instructions) :
make your datastore on your external drive.
sync this new datastore from your local datastore.
once your external datastore is at remote site
do a new Sync Job from the the datastore of the remote site from the external datastore.

 

[B.Otto]

As gabriel said, you can just mount an external drive, create a Datastore there and sync the current datastore to the external one.

Remember that you can sync a local datastore to another local one by creating a Remote with host localhost .

Once you have synced the whole datastore on the external disk, mount the disk on the 'new' PBS (like for example at /mnt/datastore/ds-external ) and add the datastore by adding the following lines to the file /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg :

datastore: ds-external
    comment Datastore on external disk
    path /mnt/datastore/ds-external

Now you can sync the data from the external datastore back to the local datastore in the same way as before.

 

[GabrieleV]

As gabriel said, you can just mount an external drive, create a Datastore there and sync the current datastore to the external one.

Remember that you can sync a local datastore to another local one by creating a Remote with host localhost .

Once you have synced the whole datastore on the external disk, mount the disk on the 'new' PBS (like for example at /mnt/datastore/ds-external ) and add the datastore by adding the following lines to the file /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg :

datastore: ds-external
    comment Datastore on external disk
    path /mnt/datastore/ds-external

Now you can sync the data from the external datastore back to the local datastore in the same way as before.

I'll give it a try !

 

[mac.linux.free]

but could I mount this "external" datastore on different servers? wasn´t there a kind of encryption key?

 

[GabrieleV]

Is it a bad idea to tar or rsync the local datastore to an external media, and back on the remote datastore ?
In that way, I have not to use temporary sync jobs.

 

[_gabriel]

but could I mount this "external" datastore on different servers? wasn´t there a kind of encryption key?

no problem to mount a non encrypted datastore on another server, i do that each month, to local verify a remote datastore.

 

[_gabriel]

Is it a bad idea to tar or rsync the local datastore to an external media, and back on the remote datastore ?
In that way, I have not to use temporary sync jobs.

sync job will do same job as rsync, even faster irrc