On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:15 AM Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 02:57:13PM -0700, Joshua M. Clulow via > openindiana-discuss wrote: > > > > You may wish to investigate "zrepl" as well, which has some neat > features: > > > > https://zrepl.github.io/ > > ZnapZend and zrepl are actually very similar in function: they both do > replication of ZFS filesystems. I wondered at first that these two > backup systems had no facilites for restores, like you get with a > traditional backup system. However, I soon realized that if you had a > replica, you could just copy a file to restore it. Alternatively, you > could recreate an entire filesystem from a replica. > > The system I used formerly, zetaback, only stored "zfs send" streams on > the backup device. That's something that's failure-prone, according to > all the ZFS documents I've read. > > The only disadvantage of zrepl that I've encountered so far is that it > does not have an OI package. > Ironically, zrepl <https://repology.org/project/zrepl/versions> has more distro repo packages than znapzend <https://repology.org/project/znapzend/versions> has ;) Yes, this was a surprise to me too, hahaha. > > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, > Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
