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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52
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