Hi,
I agree 100% with Chris.
Notice the "on their own" part of the original post. Yes, nobody wants
to run zfs send or (s)tar by hand.
That's why Chris's script is so useful: You set it up and forget and get the
job done for 80% of home users.
On another note, I was positively surprised by the availability of Crash Plan
for OpenSolaris:
http://crashplan.com/
Their free service allows to back up your stuff to a friend's system over the
net in an encrypted way, the paid-for servide uses Crashplan's data centers at
a less than Amazon-S3 pricing.
While this may not be everyone's solution, I find it significant that they
explicitly support OpenSolaris. This either means they're OpenSolaris fans
or that they see potential in OpenSolaris home server users.
Cheers,
Constantin
On 03/20/10 01:31 PM, Chris Gerhard wrote:
I'll say it again: neither 'zfs send' or (s)tar is an
enterprise (or
even home) backup system on their own one or both can
be components of
the full solution.
Up to a point. zfs send | zfs receive does make a very good back up scheme for
the home user with a moderate amount of storage. Especially when the entire
back up will fit on a single drive which I think would cover the majority of
home users.
Using external drives and incremental zfs streams allows for extremely quick
back ups of large amounts of data.
It certainly does for me.
http://chrisgerhard.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/rolling-incremental-backups/
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