cfcaballero
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Hello:
I have two FreeNAS servers (9.10) in different countries, let's call them A&B.
I want to have them replicate each other, and I can run that with test servers just fine.
But B is new/empty and A has 6 TB of data and a slow internet connection (just 1Mb/s upload), so it is really a non-starter to do the first replication via SSH, and I cannot bring server B to location A or vice-versa.
I saw this post and understand that process fine and have tested with test-data on server B.
https://www.cod3r.com/2015/12/freenas-internal-backups/
My question is then, can I use that process to indirectly replicate pool A to server B, a sort of transitive replication?
I have a single drives (shingled archive drive and USB JBOD array) large enough to hold the entire pool from A that I can carry from location A to B. If I "ingest" the pool from A into server B using localhost replication with removable/external drives, as in that post, will I then be able to replicate new periodic snapshots from A to B?
Obviously (despite my searching), I don't understand what goes over the wire in replication over SSH, is it file data ala rsync, or disk sectors, etc.?
I'm aware that I could use the same transportable single drive to rsync the files from A to B via the drive, but again, would that result in incremental snapshots successfully replicating changes in A to B? Especially since I eventually want changes replicated in both directions.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I have two FreeNAS servers (9.10) in different countries, let's call them A&B.
I want to have them replicate each other, and I can run that with test servers just fine.
But B is new/empty and A has 6 TB of data and a slow internet connection (just 1Mb/s upload), so it is really a non-starter to do the first replication via SSH, and I cannot bring server B to location A or vice-versa.
I saw this post and understand that process fine and have tested with test-data on server B.
https://www.cod3r.com/2015/12/freenas-internal-backups/
My question is then, can I use that process to indirectly replicate pool A to server B, a sort of transitive replication?
I have a single drives (shingled archive drive and USB JBOD array) large enough to hold the entire pool from A that I can carry from location A to B. If I "ingest" the pool from A into server B using localhost replication with removable/external drives, as in that post, will I then be able to replicate new periodic snapshots from A to B?
Obviously (despite my searching), I don't understand what goes over the wire in replication over SSH, is it file data ala rsync, or disk sectors, etc.?
I'm aware that I could use the same transportable single drive to rsync the files from A to B via the drive, but again, would that result in incremental snapshots successfully replicating changes in A to B? Especially since I eventually want changes replicated in both directions.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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