[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/19/2008 01:59:29 AM: > Ares Drake wrote: > > 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). > > > > Anyone have a similar setup, recommendations, or maybe something I could > > use as an idea? > I store all the data worth keeping on my windows boxes on either iSCSI > volumes exported from a ZFS server, or SMB shares from the same server. > That way, nothing has to be coped and they never run out of space.
I use rsync with the inplace-update setting and a blocksize matching the zfs store. I call it from the zfs server and snap after it finishes. seems to allow for a massive amount of snaps as only changed blocks are updated. I make sure to --exclude volatile and non important files such as swap. I then share the snapshot directory via samba with vfs shadowcopy enabled to allow for restores from any of the snaps via xp's shadowcopy interface. 3x raw storage on my zfs server allows me about 1 year of staggered snapshots -- your milage will vary with data volatility and snap frequency. -Wade _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
