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Dan
2022-05-18 09:12:57 -04:00
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@ -208,6 +208,18 @@ It also possible to use a 3rd server that pulls backups from the source and push
To do this, you have to install zfs-autobackup on a 3rd server and use both `--ssh-source` and `--ssh-target` to specify the other servers.
### Local Usage
It is also possible to run zfs-autobackup locally, where you could backup snapshots to a different pool on the same server. This is done by simply omitting the `--ssh-source` and `--ssh-target` parameters.
For example, let's say you have an additional pool for local backups called `backups`, that's on separate device(s) from your data pools. In this pool, you have a dataset called `autobackup`. You could run the following command (assuming you set the zfs group name to `autobackup:local` on your data filesystems):
> zfs-autobackup -v local backups/autobackup
Combining this with a remote push or pull backup, you could then set the zfs group name on your backup filesystems to something like `autobackup:remote`, then have a second zfs-autobackup job that backs up these snapshots to your remote storage like:
> zfs-autobackup -v --ssh-target root@backupserver remote data/backup/pve01
### Automatic backups
Now every time you run the command, zfs-autobackup will create a new snapshot and replicate your data.