Using External HD as storage on PBS

[julicravo]

Hi, guys, I put an external hd to be the datastore of my pbs. What would it be like if my pbs dies and I need to take this external hard drive and mount it on another PBS? Any difficulties? Thank you.

 

[Alwin]

When you reconfigure the new PBS as the original then it should be ok. If you have already a second PBS running, then you could also use a sync job for the datastore. Since often the disk dies first.

 

[julicravo]

Consider the following hypothesis: My pbs server died, I only have the external HD that I used as a datastore. How would I use this external hd in other pbs, which I just raised? Thank you.

 

[Alwin]

When you reconfigure the new PBS as the original then it should be ok.

Well, doesn't that answer it? And try your disaster recovery plan in a VM. That allows to simulate those conditions very easily.