Greetings. I am currently looking into setting up a better backup solution for our family.
I own a ZFS Fileserver with a 5x500GB raidz. I want to back up data (not the OS itself) from multiple PCs running linux oder windowsXP. The linux boxes are connected via 1000Mbit, the windows machines either via gigabit as well or 54Mbit WPA encrypted WLAN. So far i've set up sharing via NFS on the Solaris box and it works well from both Linux and Windows (via SFU). I am looking for a solution to do incremental backups without wasting space on the fileserver and I want to be able to access a single file in the backup in differnt versions without much hassle. I think it can be done easily with ZFS and Snapshots? What would be good ways to get the files to the fileserver? For linux I thought of using rsync to sync the files over, than do a snapshot to preserve that backup state. Would you recommend using rsync with NFS or over ssh? (I assume the network is save enough for our needs.) Are there better alternatives? How to best get the data from the Windows machines to the Solaris box? Just copying them over by hand would not delete files on the fileserver in case some files are deleted on the windows box in between different backups. Using rsync on windows is only possible with cygwin emulation. Maybe there are better methods? Anyone have a similar setup, recommendations, or maybe something I could use as an idea? Thanks in advance, A. Drake _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
