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Subject: Re: Best practice for high availability ZFS pool
To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
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Il 16/05/2016 12:08, Palle Girgensohn ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> We need to set up a ZFS pool with redundance. The main goal is high availability - uptime.
>
> I can see a few of paths to follow.
>
> 1. HAST + ZFS
>
> 2. Some sort of shared storage, two machines sharing a JBOD box.
>
> 3. ZFS replication (zfs snapshot + zfs send | ssh | zfs receive)
Hi, have you tried compression ? Somethings like:

zfs snapshot + zfs send | lzop | ssh | lzop -d | zfs receive

I am successfully using this method using a modified version of 
sysutils/zrep , but my pools are only few TB in size.
--
Maurizio