Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:08:03 -0600 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies Message-ID: <bf00bf283f3ac0dcc50eab56000c2c97@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <5130CD1C.90709@denninger.net> References: <5130BA35.5060809@denninger.net> <bafb9e19b43b91127be25924ab139529@dweimer.net> <5130CD1C.90709@denninger.net>
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On 03/01/2013 9:45 am, Karl Denninger wrote:
>>
>> I briefly did something like this between two FreeNAS boxes, it
>> seemed
>> to work well, but my secondary Box wasn't quite up to par hardware.
>> Combine that with the lack of necessary internet bandwidth with a
>> second physical location in case of something really disastrous, like
>> a tornado or fire destroying my house. I ended up just using an
>> eSATA
>> drive dock and Bacula, with a few external drives rotated regularly
>> into my office at work, rather than upgrading the secondary box.
>>
>> If you have the secondary box that is adequate, and either offsite
>> backups aren't a concern or you have a big enough pipe to a secondary
>> location that houses the backup this should work.
>>
>> I would recommend testing your incremental snapshot rotation, I never
>> did test a restore from anything but the most recent set of data when
>> I was running my setup, I did however save a weeks worth of hourly
>> snapshots on a couple of the more rapidly changing data sets.
>>
> I rotate the disaster disks out to a safe-deposit box at the bank, and
> they're geli-encrypted, so if stolen they're worthless to the thief
> (other than their cash value as a drive) and if the building goes
> "poof"
> I have the ones in the vault to recover from. There's the potential
> for
> loss up to the rotation time of course but that is the same risk I had
> with all UFS filesystems.
>
> I've tested the restores onto a spare box and it appears to work as
> expected...
>
> Thanks for the comments!
Yes, good point on the Geli encryption, I do that as well on my
external backup drives, didn't think to mention that in the last post.
I have considered the safe-Deposit box as well, but our office building
at work is fairly well secured seeing as it houses the main data-center
for our company, doors locked 24 hours a day, with electronic locks that
log all entries. Its also an old brick and concrete building, that has
survived a direct Tornado hit about 15 years ago with only very minor
cosmetic exterior damage, to the awning over the front stairs and the
Company logo above it. I feel fairly secure in keeping the disk drives
there, and if ever need my offsite backup at 3:00am I can go get it
rather than be stuck waiting for the bank to open.
--
Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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