Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving Storage to opensolaris+zfs. What about backup?

2010-03-03 Thread Svein Skogen
The problem is that all disks I've seen so far, has been more fragile than tapes (given a real disaster, such as a clumsy sysadmin, or a burning home falling on top of them)... Trust me to knock over a disk. //Svein -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving Storage to opensolaris+zfs. What about backup?

2010-03-03 Thread Erik Ableson
Comments inline : On Wednesday, March 03, 2010, at 06:35PM, "Svein Skogen" wrote: > >However trying to wrap my head around solaris and backups (I'm used to >FreeBSD) is now leaving me with a nasty headache, and still no closer to a >real solution. I need something that on regular intervals pu

[zfs-discuss] Moving Storage to opensolaris+zfs. What about backup?

2010-03-03 Thread Svein Skogen
Until now, I've ran Windows Storage server 2008, but the ... lack of iSCSI performance has gotten me so fed up that I've now moved all the files off the server, to install opensolaris with two zpools, and nfs+smb+iSCSI sharing towards my windows clients, and vmware ESXi boxes (two of them). So f