Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 08:18:46 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs newbie Message-ID: <20210908081846.02fc2284933dd581081b39dc@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <8c1c61d2-2b55-ae46-3304-9bfdcd6bd2d1@holgerdanske.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2109071816090.65542@bucksport.safeport.com> <8c1c61d2-2b55-ae46-3304-9bfdcd6bd2d1@holgerdanske.com>
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 18:28:28 -0700 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > It is > my practice to keep my OS instances small enough to fit onto a single > "16 GB" device, and to put my data on RAID in a file server. This > allows me to quickly, easily, and reliably take and restore raw binary > images of the OS devices. I strongly recommend this practice - using a mirrored pair for the OS device is even better, you can even mirror to an iscsi exported zvol on the file server in a pinch (ie. laptops) but recovery is fiddly. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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