Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34) (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 39)

2012-09-14 Thread Ong Yu-Phing
Yes, there are two slightly different goals in terms of backup, (1) to backup ZFS based CIFS servers (2) to backup non-ZFS based servers. For (1) I've been trying to use tools like zetaback, warmer, etc. For (2) I've been using good-ol' backuppc. I'm quite glad this thread started, because

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-09-12 3:52, Julius Roberts wrote: As for releasing it into the wild I'm happy do do that, but there are no appropriate licensing statements in any if the files nor have I considered what licence to even use. I was thinking of pushing the code to a slave svn instance from which the public

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34)

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-09-12 6:05, Ong Yu-Phing пишет: Jim, I assume you are referring to this: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/rsync+daemon+service+on+OpenIndiana, thanks! Yes, I think that's it ;) My concern is that typically rsync will take quite a while to traverse a large set of files before sending only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-13 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Julius Roberts wrote: mdbackup and I manage it all using subversion. As for releasing it into the wild I'm happy do do that, but there are no appropriate licensing statements in any if the files nor have I considered what licence to even use. I was thinking of pushing the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-12 Thread Michael Zandstra
Is zfs send and zfs recv not an option? http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/gbchx.html#gbinw (Sending a ZFS Snapshot) From Nexenta course I once followed; Snapshot early, snapshot often. It's better to do snapshots every 5 minutes and send that differential snapshot to a second

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-12 Thread Lucas Van Tol
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects Is zfs send and zfs recv not an option? http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/gbchx.html#gbinw (Sending a ZFS Snapshot) From Nexenta course I once followed; Snapshot early

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34)

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Ong Yu-Phing wrote: My concern is that typically rsync will take quite a while to traverse a large set of files before sending only changed files; a classic example is This sounds like behavior of rsync prior to 3.0. Rsync is still slow but it is able to start sending

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Creamer
A recent thread caused me to look for open source projects that leverage ZFS to backup systems. I found a couple, such as OmniTI's Zetabackhttp://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback, but that one appears to be dead - at least the links don't work and the Git page shows no recent activity. Nexenta's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-11 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/12 16:56, Mark Creamer wrote: A recent thread caused me to look for open source projects that leverage ZFS to backup systems. I found a couple, such as OmniTI's Zetabackhttp://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback, I am interested on this too.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-11 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-09-11 18:56, Mark Creamer wrote: A recent thread caused me to look for open source projects that leverage ZFS to backup systems. I found a couple, such as OmniTI's Zetabackhttp://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback, but that one appears to be dead - at least the links don't work and the Git page

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-11 Thread Julius Roberts
I have done this myself but haven't yet got around to releasing it. It's called mdbackup, is written in perl and basically goes off and connects to a bunch of remote servers (defined in a file called mdtab) via ssh or a smb mount, rsyncs the data to a location on your local zpool and then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34)

2012-09-11 Thread Ong Yu-Phing
Jim, I assume you are referring to this: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/rsync+daemon+service+on+OpenIndiana, thanks! My concern is that typically rsync will take quite a while to traverse a large set of files before sending only changed files; a classic example is backing up say 1TB of