Replacing a Datastore HDD

[Gregsy]

I’m very new to PBS and would appreciate some guidance.
My PBS is installed on a Dell micro pc with space for only 1 HDD for the Datastore. The program files are installed on a separate NVMe drive. My 500gb HDD is getting full and I have acquired a 1TB HDD to replace it.
I would just like to remove the 500gb and put it safely away in my drawer in case I ever need to restore from it. I’d then like to install the 1TB HDD into my Dell box and create a new Datastore and start backing up my cluster on to it from scratch.
What procedure should I follow in PBS to enable the data on my 500gb HDD to remain available for restoring should it ever be needed and start backing up to my 1TB HDD?
Many thanks.

 

[Johannes S]

The best course of Action would propably be to get an external USB enclosure, install one of the discs in it and add it as removable datastore. Afterwards create a syncc-job to sync the backups from one disc to the other. Personally I would put the 1TB into the enclosure so I have more backups on my movable datastore but that's just a matter of preference.

So you end up with a setup like this:
- Backups to primary internal datastore ( 500gb)
- Sync them to the removable ( 1tb)
- Prune old backups earlier on the Primary e.g. keep 24 hourly, 7 daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly on the internal disc and 30 daily, 3 weekly, 12 monthly on the external