Backups for FreeNAS Volume

[anup modak]

I have one standalone Freenas box with two volumes. First volume has 6x4TB raid-z2 and second volume has 2 vdev's with 6 x4TB 6x6TB and raid-z2.
I am trying to setup another Freenas server in vmware with pci passthrough as backup server.It will have 10x5Tb in raid-z2. I am not sure if I can use ZFS replication? or would I need to use rsync only.

 

[pirateghost]

Why wouldn't you be able to use zfs replication? That's the preferred method

 

[anup modak]

Just was not sure if I needed same size vdev's...

 

[pirateghost]

Nope