Use different drives on same PBS config

[watzr]

Hey,

i setup a PBS with one 8tb drive in ZFS, pool called "backup1". Now in weekly intervals i want to swap this drive with another "backup2". So im writing backups one week to drive 1, one week to drive 2 and have the other as offsite storage of my backups.

In PBS i created ZFS "backup1" and configured all backup jobs with my PVE, everything works fine this way. Now i pulled out "backup1" and put in another drive, created a ZFS called "backup2" and it gets listed as available storage in PBS - Datastore. All backup jobs to this PBS machine fail though, since they want to write to "backup1". Is there a way to tell PBS to just use any "backupXYZ" drive for backups? Or another way to do this as pain free as possible? I just want to shutdown PBS, change drives, boot it up again and have it running again pretty much...or as close to this as i can get.

Thanks a lot

 

[fabian]

just use a single datastore (/set the same mountpoint for both pools)? note that such a scheme will break the dirty bitmaps each time you rotate the disks (the backup will work, but VMs will not benefit from the additional speedup for that one backup run).

 

[fabian]

you might also want to consider having an offsite PBS instance and syncing from the primary over the network - no disk rotation necessary in that case, and syncing is incremental and decoupled from the backup, so it can go slow and steady and doesn't need a super fast link once you have the initial datastore synced.

 

[Darius koissi]

you might also want to consider having an offsite PBS instance and syncing from the primary over the network - no disk rotation necessary in that case, and syncing is incremental and decoupled from the backup, so it can go slow and steady and doesn't need a super fast link once you have the initial datastore synced.

the steps I followed:
1.I labeled the tape with tape

2. loaded the tape into the media pool with the same name from the paper label

3. start backup

but I still get an error message:

2022-03-07T14:07:09+00:00: TASK ERROR: read label failed (please label all tapes first)

 

[fabian]

the steps I followed:
1.I labeled the tape with tape

2. loaded the tape into the media pool with the same name from the paper label

3. start backup

but I still get an error message:

2022-03-07T14:07:09+00:00: TASK ERROR: read label failed (please label all tapes first)

wrong thread?