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I've set this up on on a Proxmox backup machine, it creates the zfs snapshots on the remote machine and them pulls them into it;s own zfs pool.

the setup

• install sanoid on backup and source host (not strictly required on both, but sanoid uses tools on both machine for fast and reliable connection) apt install sanoid
• if you don't run sanoid on one machine, ensure the following folders are created on it mkdir -p /var/cache/sanoid /var/run/sanoid
• use root accounts for ssh connections, the zfs commands need root access (tried to get it to work without and it was turtles all the way down)
• add conf files from github to /etc/sanoid/ and setup
• run manual backup (add --debug flag for more info) syncoid -r --use-hold --preserve-recordsize --preserve-properties root@192.168.1.43:noggapool/music stanleypool/music
• config files are found here: /etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf /etc/sanoid/sanoid.defaults.conf /usr/local/bin/zfs-nightly-backup.sh

scheduled snapshots and prune

by default, when installing via apt it starts a timer service that executes every 15minutes. for my requirements i need to disable this for now systemctl stop timer.sanoid.service systemctl disable time.sanoid.service