From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 06:42:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A051065692 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike503@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6907A8FC23 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike503@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id p76so1114141pyb.10 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:42:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=VEMAj/DjO1G9PenkPggpuk4NAx8CtANGjtmOUSzL/vE=; b=hSzXyUfsgp1AnAiWDFKoO35Ql9y5CT2/rRMlEsnFy8em1RIOxJw9z0duUWweWUdVSd 6NBNNkJgZzxI/RAN/OJHlChzv9cRSYARsMiIYGZHiDQNg24BWgvdY6K6N25nFYdgwOta LLsf8W5UAyI5nI402ZW+z5+PEwSXijVnbSDhk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=S02h6NQGWSoGmpA2BUFTsB2IOVLqHZxEbzFDwrcycuIT8Q50JntcwaUEmWyHVRFTPR hre12mAP/4j3vO2khO5dTgTDadjFA4AWSAR92zTUiEppbyNySwRDU1/+Id4SfgNejaVA IpbyrrQCzewDIuIT9OYlyG7DvNSaA5x33gRFM= Received: by 10.142.11.2 with SMTP id 2mr1660206wfk.29.1215497754114; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.102.11 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:15:54 -0700 From: mike To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Thinking of using ZFS/FBSD for a backup system X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:42:06 -0000 I administer a handful of servers - both for work and for my side business. Right now I am rsyncing /home each server back each night from the server to my own machine at home. I'd like to add in snapshots, so I want to sanity check here - I wouldn't be doing much more than: - creating a separate zfs filesystem for each server - creating a nightly snapshot after the rsync finishes Since I cannot change the filesystems on the remote machines now (and all run Linux anyway), this essentially gives me the ability to have daily snapshots of each machine at my fingertips should I need it - correct? Just wanted to sanity check here before investing some money and time into this solution... Also if anyone wants to reply to me off list with hardware that works well for FBSD 7 + ZFS I'd be grateful :) Thanks in advance.