Replication to a local volume

[Kevin.Chatham]

For background, I have 6 drives:

4x 1 tb in a RaidZV2
2x 1 tb in a Raid 0

I have set up periodic snapshot that occur on my RaidZV2 volume. Is it possible to use a replication or rsync task to sync them to my Raid 0 volume? If so, how would I go about doing it?

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[ben]

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Replication_Tasks Although these docs are about remote replication, the principle is the same. I'm not sure if the GUI is set up for local replication, but if it's not I believe you can configure a task like that using a cron job and just leave out the ssh bits (ie just do ZFS send/receive with the two local volumes).

 

[Kevin.Chatham]

Thanks for that info! I was able to set up a replication task using the SSH key from my server. I guess I just wait to see if it starts transfering the snapshots?

-Kevin

 

[ben]

It seems silly to authenticate against the local machine, but if it works, it works. Definitely check whenever it's scheduled to be sure it's working before relying on it.

 

[Kevin.Chatham]

I thought so too, but I did it just to be safe. I'll report back with my findings.

-Kevin

 

[freshfeesh]

Kevin - so did it work? Are you still using authenticating the local backup? I was going to post this question had I not found your post. Thanks.

 

[Kevin.Chatham]

Sorry for never reporting back. Life got hectic.

I ended up not using FreeNa. So I didn't really fiddle with making it work. Post the question again and maybe someone will be able to give you a more thorough answer.