Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Schuller
> I'm just curious at what others are currently doing to back up huge > amounts of data. eg. 2TB and onwards. I'm using rdiff-backup and some scripting to backup ZFS snapshots. Other than the use of the ZFS snapshots there's nothing special about it. If your use case is suitable for rdiff-backup,

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Valentin Bud
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > 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 >> > quite right. i was NOT answering to z

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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 quite right. i was NOT answering to zfs send/receive case! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Valentin Bud
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

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Julien Cigar
I would suggest Bacula, a bit hard to config but very flexible On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar 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

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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.

Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-18 Thread David N
Hi, 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. Cost would be my main focus, so backing up to a HDD would b