Local mounting a backups zpool for ZFS rep

I do backups of my server daily to an external drive (which is mounted to an external system). It's a 2 core mobile Celeron from I think 2014, and it's not happy doing ZSTD compression. I was thinking of decommissioning this little box so I don't overheat it and have 1 less box to run. A long while back when I was less experienced I tried mounting my backup drive to the same system and do zfs send/receives, but that didn't seem to work well and I would have conflicting mount points. My guess is because the src zroot/dataset would be mounted at /dataset, and backups/zroot/dataset would try to mount at the same location. So, if I'm using sysutils/zap to do my replication, I have it set to have my zpool mount=none. I feel dumb for asking this since I think I already know the answer, but this would avoid any mount issues and I could cleanly do my replications without conflict this way, yes?
 
Compile zpaq (into ports archivers paq), it's very old, but should run fine for your backup (into external disk), without useless zfs replica
 
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