left_in_the_lurch
Cadet
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- Oct 22, 2018
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Snapshot replication support.
Hi,
I colleague of mine depoyed ( not fully ) and then left me a FreeNAS solution.
If I can explain maybe you can help.
Every night a server backs up to on premise FreeNAS box creating a large file. ( 825GiB ).
So I have looked though the forums and cannot find a post that explains if I am being unrealistic or not.
I have played with Schedules and the like but cannot find anything that acheives what I am after.
So a snapshot every 2 hours is 825.8GiB bt the data has not changed since midnight..... The used bit is 792.0KiB.
I have a second FreeNAS box off site and the idea my colleague left me with was this amazing way that the two would talk to each other and copy the snapshots etc.
However, I have a horid feeeling that it is trying to copy the 825GiB every time and not the 792KiB. I had them on the same site and they were happily in sync. Is this even acheiveable or how should I be setting the replication. I dont understand how the snapshots are all the same size every two hours etc.
I know I should go and learn all about FreeNAS but currently I have a solution to deploy and get working that my colleague left me with. I have tried to read the forums but it is the Used column that is throwing me.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I colleague of mine depoyed ( not fully ) and then left me a FreeNAS solution.
If I can explain maybe you can help.
Every night a server backs up to on premise FreeNAS box creating a large file. ( 825GiB ).
So I have looked though the forums and cannot find a post that explains if I am being unrealistic or not.
I have played with Schedules and the like but cannot find anything that acheives what I am after.
So a snapshot every 2 hours is 825.8GiB bt the data has not changed since midnight..... The used bit is 792.0KiB.
I have a second FreeNAS box off site and the idea my colleague left me with was this amazing way that the two would talk to each other and copy the snapshots etc.
However, I have a horid feeeling that it is trying to copy the 825GiB every time and not the 792KiB. I had them on the same site and they were happily in sync. Is this even acheiveable or how should I be setting the replication. I dont understand how the snapshots are all the same size every two hours etc.
I know I should go and learn all about FreeNAS but currently I have a solution to deploy and get working that my colleague left me with. I have tried to read the forums but it is the Used column that is throwing me.
Thanks in advance.