diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index c58f387..13e54dc 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -169,6 +169,22 @@ Run the script on the backup machine and pull the data from the source machine s #### All operations completed successfully ``` +### The results + +As you might notice, zfs-autobackup preserve the whole parent-path of the source. + +So `rpool/data/vm100-disk-0` ends up as: `data/backup/pve01/rpool/data/vm-100-disk-0` + +Since its a backup, its usefull to preserve the original structure of the data like this. + +#### Stripping the path + +Since you might think this is ugly, there is the `--strip-path` option. However this can lead to collisions if you 2 source datasets result in the same target paths. Since version 3.1.2 zfs-autobackup will check for this and emit an error. + +Also if you later want to add datasets that are higher up the tree, you might run in to trouble. + +### Pull or push? + Note that this is called a "pull" backup. The backup (target) machine pulls the backup from the source machine. This is usually the preferred way. It is also possible to let a source machine push its backup to the target machine. There are security implications to both approaches, as follows: