From 2b3df7e342b4dfcd378ef3af019aeb7a58319a10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sebastian=20J=C3=A4ger?= Date: Tue, 2 May 2023 18:57:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: address setup with two or more external disks (#695) --- docs/quickstart/backup_to_external_disk.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/quickstart/backup_to_external_disk.rst b/docs/quickstart/backup_to_external_disk.rst index f1a02d7..6019bcf 100644 --- a/docs/quickstart/backup_to_external_disk.rst +++ b/docs/quickstart/backup_to_external_disk.rst @@ -33,4 +33,17 @@ You will likely want to customize some aspects mentioned in the top comment in t .. literalinclude:: ../../config/samples/quickstart_backup_to_external_disk.yml + +Offline Backups with two (or more) External Disks +------------------------------------------------- + +It can be desirable to have multiple disk-based backups of the same machine. +To accomplish this, + +* create one zpool per external HDD, each with a unique name, and +* define a pair of ``push`` and ``sink`` job **for each** of these zpools, each with a unique ``name``, ``listener_name``, and ``root_fs``. + +The unique names ensure that the jobs don't step on each others' toes when managing :ref:`zrepl's ZFS abstractions ` . + + :ref:`Click here ` to go back to the quickstart guide. \ No newline at end of file