ssh and zfs replication

[DerTom246]

Hi,

I just installed pbs and tried to find any 'howto' on using the pbs-zfs-dataset for a zfs replication or backup job.

The zfs-pool with several datasets is created by controller passthrough within a VM. As much as I understand it, I cannot backup the zfs-pool or the datasets the way proxmox and pbs work together.

Is there a way to get zfs replication setup between the VM and pbs? Do I have to use ssh?

Kind regards,

Tom

 

[fiona]

Hi,
PBS is storage agnostic and there is no way to use ZFS replication for it. PBS either creates block level backups (for VMs) or file level backups, both via a stream of chunks.
You could try using pve-zsync from within the VM and use some ZFS file system on your PBS server as a target. Note however that you won't be able to use any PBS features for those replicated datasets.

 

[fireon]

You can use Sync-Jobs: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/managing-remotes.html#sync-jobs