Hi,
I’m looking to pair up with a relative to set up a pair of NAS’s to act as both NAS and replication targets so that we can back up each other’s data. I’m thinking to set up RAID with a pair of drives. My question is do I need a pair of drives for the NAS function and another pair as replication target or would a pair of sufficiently large drives serve for both functions? I.e., do we need 2-bay or 4-bay NAS’s?
Thanks in advance!
A single pool should be totally fine for this—unless part of your recovery plan is handing over the physical drives.
With just a single pool each, you can create a dataset that serves as your replication target (e.g. pool/zoof on your friend’s NAS and pool/friend-of-zoof on yours). One reason to use a dedicated pool would be if for disaster recovery you’d like to get the physical drives with your data and import the pool locally without taking your friend’s data too.
Thank you! That is very helpful.