On 09/08/17 10:39, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On Sep 7, 2017, at 11:45 PM, Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net
>>
>> I'm curious.  What do you see as the advantage of this layout?

> ###
> 
> If the Pool is no longer required, it is easy to delete. Dividing data
> up this way
> it's always a good idea, because of the flexibility for future
> manipulation it provides. 
> 
> If these were all on separate devices, you'd get better concurrent
> throughput.
> 
> Full backups are usually bigger, incremental backups are usually
> smaller, so you 
> could just recordsize accordingly.
> 
> If you assigned each client to a different pool, deleting their backups
> when the
> client leaves is now a simple matter of deleting the appropriate ZFS
> datasets.
> 
> If you want to move a pool to a different bacula-sd, you move that data set.
> 
> ###

Makes sense.  :)


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