[question] Is syncoid inital offline sync possible?

[cheretbe]

Hi
I'm going to sync a huge dataset over the internet. Sending daily increments is going to be fine, but initial sync will take days.
Is it possible somehow do initial sync using a file? Dump everything to a portable hard drive, move it to destination and restore there or something like that.

[phreaker0]

no, not with syncoid. For the initial sync you need to directly use zfs send for generating the initial replication stream and save it to a disk for later zfs receive at the target location.