Thinking of using ZFS/FBSD for a backup system

[CZUCZY Gergely]

I've already made a backup system exactly in the scheme you've just described,
in order to replace dirvish. It worked quite well, but the ZFS port was so
experimental that we couldn't go on.

No matter how much i've tried to finetune ZFS it kept in randomly rebooting in
every 1-2-3 weeks, and a few backup cycles were lost.

Regardless of this, the system worked quite well. If ZFS were stable, this
easily could be our backup system. ZFS is great, awesome, but a bit unreliable
on FreeBSD, still needs some work.

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:15:54 -0700
mike <mike503 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I administer a handful of servers - both for work and for my side
> business. Right now I am rsyncing /home each server back each night
> from the server to my own machine at home.
> 
> I'd like to add in snapshots, so I want to sanity check here - I
> wouldn't be doing much more than:
> 
> - creating a separate zfs filesystem for each server
> - creating a nightly snapshot after the rsync finishes
> 
> Since I cannot change the filesystems on the remote machines now (and
> all run Linux anyway), this essentially gives me the ability to have
> daily snapshots of each machine at my fingertips should I need it -
> correct?
> 
> Just wanted to sanity check here before investing some money and time
> into this solution...
> 
> Also if anyone wants to reply to me off list with hardware that works
> well for FBSD 7 + ZFS I'd be grateful :)
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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