For over a year, I've been running bzman, an incremental zfs snapshot send/receive based utility, to backup zones and zfs data volumes onto a remote Ubuntu 14.04 server with Linux zfs. It runs nicely through cron, also sends e-mail notifications and removes old snapshots.
Alexei > Hi, > >> Am 13.01.2016 um 21:27 schrieb Rickie via smartos-discuss >> <[email protected]>: >> >> 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 > > eSATA should work. > > USB3 is not supported by SmartOS (last time I checked). > I would *LOVE* to see USB3 support (and UASP for that matter) > in SmartOS. Maybe someone in the know could comment on this. > >> * Backup to a NAS on the network. > > Most likely you will want to use âzfs send/recvâ to back up > snapshots incrementally from your zones pool. This will > NOT work with a NAS unless that NAS happens to be > ZFS-based (e.g. FreeNAS). Even then you should > check for zpool versions and feature-flags and make sure > the the NAS fully understands the zfs send stream. > I would also actually test a restore from the NAS to SmartOS > to make sure everything is really restored properly. > > I am always a little concerned about doing ZFS backups > between different platforms. For example I am running > OpenZFS on OSX and I am unsure if I can trust my > SmartOS backups into an OSX pool. Some properties are > handled differently on OSX. > > Does someone have experience with doing ZFS backups across > different ZFS platforms? > > Cheers > Dirk > >> 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
