Glorious1
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I have a bit of mental block about snapshots and replication and need help understanding, so I have the backups I think I'm making. The guide is unclear to me about recursive snapshots:
Replication is also mysterious to me re recursive:
Or put another way, what is the easiest and simplest way to snapshot and replicate an entire volume and its datasets, such that you can easily get something back if necessary?
I don't have this checked for any of my snapshots. Let's say I have a snapshot task for a whole volume. Everything is included in that one snapshot, right? All the child datasets? If so, why would you ever want recursive snapshots?Recursive - Select this box to take separate snapshots of the volume/dataset and each of its child datasets; if unchecked, only one snapshot is taken of the specified Volume/Dataset
Replication is also mysterious to me re recursive:
Ummm, what? Does that mean, if there are snapshots of the child datasets? Or even if there are not? Does this mean a snapshot of a volume, when replicated, will NOT include its datasets unless you check this recursive box?Recursively replicate - if checked will also replicate child datasets
Or put another way, what is the easiest and simplest way to snapshot and replicate an entire volume and its datasets, such that you can easily get something back if necessary?