On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, dan wrote: > i have been experimenting with this and think i have a workable > solution. only problem is that nexenta is a bit of a pain to get > backuppc running on. just seems to have a lot of little issues with > backuppc 3.1 (running nexenta a7)
nexenta is Debian/Ubuntu-based, isn't it? Have you tried rebuilding the deb? > i can tell you that ZFS and snapshots are very nice! basically, you can > send a snapshot as a stream to any output like this: uh, nice! > which is basically doing something kinda like imaging the filesystem and > throwing it accross an ssh tunnel and rebuilding it on the other side. > on my local network i can get over 30MB/s speed doing this between 2 > machines on gigabit and it doesnt count the files so it starts > instantly. you can also push this accross in an incremental fassion so > you could: that is friggin sweet. > from my understanding of the ZFS snapshot process, it works on the block > level so changing part of a 1GB file will only cause the snapshot to > write the amount of the change and also allow incremental transfers of > very large files very quickly. something like rsync does for files but > on the filesystem level rather than the file level. when i test this out > i get a snapshot in less than a second and when i change the file, the > one in the snapshot is there without writing a GB. that is really cool. > basically the backup command would first take a snapshot and name it a > backup number, then do the standard file transfer right onto the > directory. and that would be cool too. ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
