Hey folks, I have no knowledge at all about how streams work in Solaris, so this might have a simple answer, or be completely impossible. Unfortunately I'm a windows admin so haven't a clue which :)
We're looking at rolling out a couple of ZFS servers on our network, and instead of tapes we're considering using off-site NAS boxes for backups. We think there's likely to be too much data each day to send the incremental snapshots to the remote systems over the wire, so we're wondering if we can use removable disks instead to transport just the incremental changes. The idea is that we can do the initial "zfs send" on-site with the NAS plugged on the network, and from then on we just need a 500GB removable disk to take the changes off site each night. Let me be clear on that: We're not thinking of storing the whole zfs pool on the removable disk, there's just too much data. Instead, we want to use "zfs send -i" to store just the incremental changes on a removable disk, so we can then take that disk home and plug it into another device and use zfs receive to upload the changes. Does anybody know if that's possible? If it works it's a nice and simple off-site backup, with the added benefit that we have a very rapid disaster recovery response. No need to waste time restoring from tape: the off-site backup can be brought onto the network and data is accessible immediately. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
