Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
We've given up on tapes in house, they are far to costly per Gb, and we were spending all day backing up to them. We have gone over to a fully ZFS system ... replicated at 3 sites per active machine. data is generated (by users) at site 1 (on ZFS raid ... generally 2 disks), this is then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-13 Thread LaoTsao
Question do you have ha on each site? Or you just use 2nd site to protect 1st site Thx Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On Jun 13, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: We've given up on tapes in house, they are far to costly per Gb, and we were

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
We snapshot daily, automatically, so the system is only up to 1 day out ... which is enough for us ... that is all we used to do with tape, so it is comparable. It hasn't stopped some of our users spending all day on a document creating/editing and then they go and delete it in the same day, but