Hello Jason, Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 9:35:13 PM, you wrote:
JAH> On Aug 29, 2006, at 12:17 PM, James Dickens wrote: >> ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. >> >> I was thinking today about backing up filesystems, and came up with an >> awesome idea. Use the power of rsync and ZFS together. >> >> Start with a one or two large SATA/PATA drives if you use two and >> don't need the space you can mirror other wise just use as in raid0, >> enable compression unless your files are mostly precompressed, use >> rsync as the backup tool, the first time you just copy the data over. >> After you are done, take a snapshot, export the pool. And uninstall >> the drives until next time. When next time rolls around have rsync >> update the changed files, as it does block copies of changed data, >> only a small part of the data has changed. After than is done, take a >> snapshot. >> >> Now thanks to ZFS you have complete access to incremental backups, >> just look at the desired snapshots. For now rsync doesn't support >> nfsv4 acls, but at least you have the data. JAH> Yes I concur. This is how we do our backups, rsync + rolling over JAH> snapshots. Why not make a snapshots on a production and then send incremental backups over net? Especially with a lot of files it should be MUCH faster than rsync. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
