on Mon Feb 23 2009, Robert Milkowski <milek-AT-task.gda.pl> wrote: > Hello David, > > Saturday, February 21, 2009, 10:33:05 PM, you wrote: > > DA> on Sat Feb 21 2009, Miles Nordin <carton-AT-Ivy.NET> wrote: > >>> Many new ZFS users are convinced to try ZFS because they want to back >>> up non-ZFS filesystems onto zpool's because it's better than tape, so >>> that's not a crazy idea. > > DA> Not crazy, unless you need to get the backups off-site. > > In that case you can have another box in other location/site and > replicate data to it. Eventually you can install a backup client on > such a zfs server and backup your data from here - depends on > environment it could make a lot of sense and even save you money on > licensing alone (one backup client for data coming from many servers). > > See > http://milek.blogspot.com/2009/02/disruptive-backup-platform.html > http://milek.blogspot.com/2009/02/backup-tool.html
Yeah, maybe someday. I'm running a small distributed business out of my home with an outgoing pipe that's "fast" (right -- as cablemodems go), I have one server running FreeBSD 6.2 hosted elsewhere that runs our web presence, and I am setting a local server running RAIDZ2 for my critical data. I don't have lots of scratch for more offsite boxen, although I do have lots of idle boxen with weak hardware -- mostly old laptops -- laying around the house. I just got my system backing the ZFS up to S3. I believe I can afford that, for now. The economics of this approach may change as the server fills up, of course. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
