I would advise against the USB approach… there is no USB 3 support, so you'd be working with USB 2, and USB 2 support is both resource-intensive and prone to failures that can cause deadlocks. I experimented with it and found it to be categorically unstable system-wide, besides finding it rather inconvenient to be futzing around with USB cables on the hot side of a rack.
The way I see it, by the time you build a system capable of backing up the zones pool over the network, you've effectively built a twin of your production host, in which case it's a short journey to simply having redundant hosts. At that point, backups is a fairly straightforward and efficient matter of incremental ZFS snapshots. *John Burwell* Systems Administrator 16945 Northchase Drive, Suite 1610, Houston, Texas 77060 *M* 281-874-2110 *D* 281-875-7997 *C* 713-269-8605 crystaphase.com On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Michel Jansens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rickie, > > I’m backing SmartOS systems to a NFS NAS (containing big files used as ZFS > vdev ). > The plus point is that I can mount the backup pool on another server in > seconds and boot the zones. > On other old Solaris systems, I do cross replication of pools on big > nearline SAS drives (on our main server cross replication is done to high > capacity read optimized SAS SSD ). > We keep backups for 2-3 months depending on pool capacity. > > Cheers, > > Michel > > > > On 13 Jan 2016, at 21:27, Rickie via smartos-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm considering my options for backing up my SmartOS zones pool. > > > > My options seem to be - > > Backup to Directly Attached Storage via ESATA or USB 3 > > Backup to a NAS on the network. > > > > What are other back options? > > What are the pros and cons of each? > > > > Thanks > > > > Rickie > > > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
