On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how >> would one "Backup" ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or >> storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server >> spontaneously bursts into flames. >> > > use tar it's filesystem independent if you have tape drives. > > actually you can tar to anything even multivolume backup using USB > connected drivers. > > I'm just curious at what others are currently doing to back up huge >> amounts of data. eg. 2TB and onwards. >> >> 1. ZFS -> External HDD (External HDD aren't even big enough to handle >> greater than 2TB) Taken offsite daily >> 2. ZFS -> Another ZFS box (Not sure how you take it off site daily) >> 3. ZFS -> Remote ZFS using RSync (Living in Australia, there are >> limits on data transfer of a few hundred GB per month, to costs are >> prohibitive) >> > > you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. Quite wrong. If you want to use the zfs send | zfs receive along with zfs snapshots tools the backup target *needs* to be ZFS. If you plan to use the zfs send | [ tar | gz ] then you can backup the snapshots anywhere you want in a compressed form. a great day, v > > > all your 3 solutions are filesystem-independent > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
