Backup Storage Pool

Backups can be stored on any storage pool on a compute node that has backup functionality turned on.

Requirements

The backup storage pool has to have the following ZFS datasets:

• <pool>/backups/ds - Location used for dataset backups.
• <pool>/backups/file - Location used for file backups. It can also be a directory or a NFS/SMB mount point.
• <pool>/backups/manifests - Location used for storing metadata of virtual machines (VM manifests) along with every backup.

ZFS dataset creation:

[root@node01 ~] zfs create -o compression=lz4 <pool>/backups/ds
[root@node01 ~] zfs create -o compression=lz4 <pool>/backups/file
[root@node01 ~] zfs create -o compression=lz4 <pool>/backups/manifests