On 2020-08-13 12:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote:
Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B
uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
They certainly are not harder than installing early Debian releases (as
I remember it from around 20 years ago, and should not be hard for
anyone building a backup system and server. Installation as an
additional file system should not be notably different from installing a
file system package from main, except for the notice the GPL
incompatibility notice that will pop up during installation.
I would recommend installing from buster-backports to get the current
openzfs release which includes improvements (notably native encryption)
as well as fixes.
Two questions:
* Most of my backup will be done from a Wheezy system -- can I install ZFS
on Wheezy?
I do not see any ZFS packages for Wheezy:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zfs&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
The simplest answer would be to install Buster and then install
'zfs-dkms' (either Stable or backport, depending upon preference).
* If I plug the USB drive into another machine without ZFS installed --
hmm, well I guess I'd have to install ZFS to use the drive?
Yes.
David
