On 05/10/2012 15:01, Edward Ned Harvey
(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote:
>> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
>> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole
>>
>> I am in the process of planning a system which will have 2 ZFS
>> servers, one on site, one off site. The on site server will be
>> used by workstations and servers in house, and most of that will
>> stay in house. There will, however, be data i want backed up
>> somewhere else, which is where the offsite server comes in... This
>> server will be sitting in a Data Center and will have some storage
>> available to it (the whole server currently has 2 3Tb drives,
>> though they are not dedicated to the ZFS box, they are on VMware
>> ESXi). There is then some storage (currently 100Gb, but more can
>> be requested) of SFTP enabled backup which i plan to use for some
>> snapshots, but more on that later.
>>
>> Anyway, i want to confirm my plan and make sure i am not missing
>> anything here...
>>
>> * build server in house with storage, pools, etc... * have a
>> server in data center with enough storage for its reason, plus the
>> extra for offsite backup * have one pool set as my "offsite"
>> pool... anything in here should be backed up off site also... *
>> possibly have another set as "very offsite" which will also be
>> pushed to the SFTP server, but not sure... * give these pools out
>> via SMB/NFS/iSCSI * every 6 or so hours take a snapshot of the 2
>> offsite pools. * do a ZFS send to the data center box * nightly,
>> on the very offsite pool, do a ZFS send to the SFTP server * if
>> anything goes wrong (my server dies, DC server dies, etc), Panic,
>> download, pray... the usual... :)
>>
>> Anyway, I want to make sure i am doing this correctly... Is there
>> anything on that list that sounds stupid or am i doing anything
>> wrong? am i missing anything?
>>
>> Also, as a follow up question, but slightly unrelated, when it
>> comes to the ZFS Send, i could use SSH to do the send, directly to
>> the machine... Or i could upload the compressed, and possibly
>> encrypted dump to the server... Which, for resume-ability and
>> speed, would be suggested? And if i where to go with an upload
>> option, any suggestions on what i should use?
>
> It is recommended, whenever possible, you should pipe the "zfs send"
> directly into a "zfs receive" on the receiving system. For two
> solid reasons:
>
> If a single bit is corrupted, the whole stream checksum is wrong and
> therefore the whole stream is rejected. So if this occurs, you want
> to detect it (in the form of one incremental failed) and then
> correct it (in the form of the next incremental succeeding).
> Whereas, if you store your streams on storage, it will go undetected,
> and everything after that point will be broken.
>
> If you need to do a restore, from a stream stored on storage, then
> your only choice is to restore the whole stream. You cannot look
> inside and just get one file. But if you had been doing send |
> receive, then you obviously can look inside the receiving filesystem
> and extract some individual specifics.
>
> If the recipient system doesn't support "zfs receive," [...]
On that note, is there a minimal user-mode zfs thing that would allow
receiving a stream into an image file? No need for file/directory access
etc.
I was thinking maybe the zfs-fuse-on-linux project may have suitable bits?
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