on Wed Oct 15 2008, Miles Nordin carton-AT-Ivy.NET wrote:
s == Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s the use of zfs
s clones/snapshots encompasses the entire zfs filesystem
I use one ZFS filesystem per VDI file. It might be better to use
vmdk's and zvol's, but right now that's not
da == David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
da how to deal with backups to my Amazon s3 storage area. Does
da zfs send avoid duplicating common data in clones and
da snapshots?
how can you afford to use something so expensive as S3 for backups?
Anyway 'zfs send' does avoid
on Fri Oct 17 2008, Miles Nordin carton-AT-Ivy.NET wrote:
da == David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
da how to deal with backups to my Amazon s3 storage area. Does
da zfs send avoid duplicating common data in clones and
da snapshots?
how can you afford to use something so
da == David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
da Is there a cheaper alternative that will securely and
da persistently store a copy of my data offsite?
rented dedicated servers with disks in them? I have not shopped for
this, but for backups it just needs to not lose your data at the
Greetings.
I'm currently looking into creating a better solution for my combination of Sun
xVM Virtualbox and ZFS.
I have two 500g sata drives configured into a zpool. I've used virtualbox for
awhile, as well as zfs, so I am familiar with their functionalities. My main
question, is more of a
s == Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s the use of zfs
s clones/snapshots encompasses the entire zfs filesystem
I use one ZFS filesystem per VDI file. It might be better to use
vmdk's and zvol's, but right now that's not what I do.
I also often copy ExPee VDI's onto physical
s if I ever add a new 'gold vdi file', it does not effect the
s clones, [...] I'll be testing more OS's than the current ones,
s so scalability
what?
What I meant is that if I have a zfs filesystem of a bunch of gold images
(VDIs), if I would zfs snapshot/clone the filesystem. If I add
