On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:27:38 -0800, Joe S <js.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate the feedback. > > I've decided to: > > * create daily ZFS snapshots and zfs send these to separate external > disks (via esata).
I'll be interested in hearing anything you learn about eSata on Solaris. I haven't used eSata anywhere yet, but it sounds good. > * create monthly full backups via rsync, tar, or amanda on separate > external disks. I'm keeping daily snapshots on both my fileserver pool and the backup pools; I'm not sure separating your incremental and daily backups like this is beneficial in the ZFS environment. "incremental" in this case is just the quickest way to update the backup pool. > I'm not going to store everything on S3, it is too expensive. However, > I will keep an encrypted copy of my critical docs and items on S3 in > case my house burns or fileserver is stolen. Sounds rational. I once had the development system for a project I was working on stolen out of the lab. It's a good thing they didn't grab all the nearby floppy disks, because those included the backups (nothing outside that room; not good practice). This was in the era where backups were being made on floppies, so it was a somewhat painstaking manual process, and my backups were 3 days out of date. Luckily I had a lab notebook telling in some detail what I'd done during those three days, and it only took about half a day to do it again from the notes. But no manager there had ever said a thing to me about backing up that box; I just did it on my own because it was obviously necessary. And I really should have taken the disks back to my desk, which was not in that room. Yeah, off-site backups are very important. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
