I have done many searches to find an answer to my biggest questions and have not found a definitive answers. I did read the post on multiple storages and in my reading have learned a lot.
My Setup:
2 in home Unraid servers (Main and backup)
Multiple cloud buckets in iDrive e2
When I say backup server (server 2) I mean it contains local backups not a mirror of the main server (server 1).
Duplicacy is running on server 1 via Docker container and backing up to server 2.
The copies go to the cloud buckets
I have 4 backups to server 2 and 4 copies to e2 cloud currently setup (more later). 2 backups and their copies to e2 are completed. The other 2 backups to server 2 are also done but the copies are still running. At the rate they are copying, it will be weeks before all of it is done. My questions are: Do I continue to do backups to the local storages? Will it negate the ongoing copying? I have seen that they should not run simultaneously but can I stop them, run another backup and continue copying upon completion? If yes, then does the copy pickup all revisions if say I backup daily to local storages?
Please comment on my suggested schedule also:
- prune local and cloud 1, 2, etc. 10pm parallel
- backup to local 1, 2, etc. sequential (start 11pm run for at most 4 hours)
- check local and cloud 1, 2, etc. 3am parallel
- copy to e2 parallel starting at 4am and continue until 10pm the next day.
I really wish you could have a schedule set of jobs to run not by time but only after a previous schedule finishes.
Thank you!