ddrucker
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I want to do a daily replication to another Truenas system, at a different site, which will be used solely for backup (specifically, it will not have NFS/SMB turned on; it is solely as a backup).
1) What is the best way to configure snapshots for this? I am guessing I should have replication-specific snapshots, if only for performance reasons - I have many hundreds of datasets so many tens of thousands of snapshots, which makes replication go extremely slowly if I just point it at the 'auto' snapshots.
1a) In replication, what is the difference between 'recursive' and '(Almost) Full Filesystem Replication'? Why would you choose one over the other?
2) I am wondering about how deletion works. Suppose I have a daily snapshot, kept for two weeks, which get replicated to the backup server. Someday, my primary server is destroyed, and I have to switch to using the backup server. Is all the data on that server going to evaporate two weeks later?!
1) What is the best way to configure snapshots for this? I am guessing I should have replication-specific snapshots, if only for performance reasons - I have many hundreds of datasets so many tens of thousands of snapshots, which makes replication go extremely slowly if I just point it at the 'auto' snapshots.
1a) In replication, what is the difference between 'recursive' and '(Almost) Full Filesystem Replication'? Why would you choose one over the other?
2) I am wondering about how deletion works. Suppose I have a daily snapshot, kept for two weeks, which get replicated to the backup server. Someday, my primary server is destroyed, and I have to switch to using the backup server. Is all the data on that server going to evaporate two weeks later?!
