SwisherSweet
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I'm considering backup strategies:
- Rsync to external drive
- Snapshot to external drive
I understand rsync will recreate files in the destination drive.
I also read others are using scheduled snapshots to make a backup of their pool.
However, I'm not sure if one could recover from a entire pool failure from snapshots alone on an external drive. If this is possible, this seems to be the simplest and most thorough way to backup a pool.
If I setup automatic snapshots to backup my pool to an external drive, will I be able to recover the pool if it fails for some reason using only the snapshots?
Thank you!
- Rsync to external drive
- Snapshot to external drive
I understand rsync will recreate files in the destination drive.
I also read others are using scheduled snapshots to make a backup of their pool.
However, I'm not sure if one could recover from a entire pool failure from snapshots alone on an external drive. If this is possible, this seems to be the simplest and most thorough way to backup a pool.
If I setup automatic snapshots to backup my pool to an external drive, will I be able to recover the pool if it fails for some reason using only the snapshots?
Thank you!