Remote Sync

stormtronix

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I tested remote sync today, setup a similar server to the pbs - first of all I ran into the same mistake as mentioned in another post:

on the PBS I configured the "remote" and afterwards the sync, which removed all my (test)Backups under a second

It must be clear that the remote and sync has to be configured on the target machine and not on the source



now to my question:

after repeating some backupjobs, which where only between 50 and 300 MB thanks to dirty-bitmap the sync was repeated and according to its output no data was changed - is this output correct? How can I be sure that the dirty bits were synced?



2020-07-16T16:07:25+02:00: sync job 'syncFromDoris' start
2020-07-16T16:07:25+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/108/2020-07-16T13:45:02Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:25+02:00: no data changes
2020-07-16T16:07:25+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/108/2020-07-16T13:45:02Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:25+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/108/2020-07-16T14:05:01Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:25+02:00: sync archive qemu-server.conf.blob
2020-07-16T16:07:25+02:00: sync archive drive-scsi0.img.fidx
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: got backup log file "client.log.blob"
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/108/2020-07-16T14:05:01Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/1114/2020-07-16T13:45:06Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: no data changes
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/1114/2020-07-16T13:45:06Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/1114/2020-07-16T14:05:04Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync archive qemu-server.conf.blob
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync archive drive-virtio0.img.fidx
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: got backup log file "client.log.blob"
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/1114/2020-07-16T14:05:04Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/379/2020-07-16T13:45:07Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: no data changes
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/379/2020-07-16T13:45:07Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/379/2020-07-16T14:05:06Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync archive qemu-server.conf.blob
2020-07-16T16:07:26+02:00: sync archive drive-virtio0.img.fidx
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: got backup log file "client.log.blob"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/379/2020-07-16T14:05:06Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/384/2020-07-16T13:45:12Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: no data changes
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/384/2020-07-16T13:45:12Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/384/2020-07-16T14:05:26Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync archive qemu-server.conf.blob
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync archive drive-virtio0.img.fidx
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: got backup log file "client.log.blob"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/384/2020-07-16T14:05:26Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/4102/2020-07-16T13:45:02Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: no data changes
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/4102/2020-07-16T13:45:02Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/4102/2020-07-16T14:05:02Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync archive qemu-server.conf.blob
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync archive drive-virtio0.img.fidx
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: got backup log file "client.log.blob"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/4102/2020-07-16T14:05:02Z" done
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync job 'syncFromDoris' end
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: TASK OK
 
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if it says

Code:
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/384/2020-07-16T13:45:12Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: no data changes
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: re-sync snapshot "vm/384/2020-07-16T13:45:12Z" done

than that snapshot was already fully synced.

if it says
Code:
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/4102/2020-07-16T14:05:02Z"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync archive qemu-server.conf.blob
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync archive drive-virtio0.img.fidx
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: got backup log file "client.log.blob"
2020-07-16T16:07:27+02:00: sync snapshot "vm/4102/2020-07-16T14:05:02Z" done

than that snapshot was new and synced. this output could surely be improved to give more indication of what's going on ;)