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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:29:43 +0100
From:      Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        David N <davidn04@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backing Up ZFS
Message-ID:  <1229689783.2730.0.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>
In-Reply-To: <20081219125123.G1595@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <4d7dd86f0812181647n7fb63aabi86baf8417bfa3966@mail.gmail.com> <20081219125123.G1595@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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I would suggest Bacula, a bit hard to config but very flexible

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how
> > would one "Backup" ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or
> > storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server
> > spontaneously bursts into flames.
> 
> use tar it's filesystem independent if you have tape drives.
> 
> actually you can tar to anything even multivolume backup using USB 
> connected drivers.
> 
> > I'm just curious at what others are currently doing to back up huge
> > amounts of data. eg. 2TB and onwards.
> >
> > 1. ZFS -> External HDD (External HDD aren't even big enough to handle
> > greater than 2TB) Taken offsite daily
> > 2. ZFS -> Another ZFS box (Not sure how you take it off site daily)
> > 3. ZFS -> Remote ZFS using RSync (Living in Australia, there are
> > limits on data transfer of a few hundred GB per month, to costs are
> > prohibitive)
> 
> you don't require your backup target to have ZFS.
> 
> all your 3 solutions are filesystem-independent
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