EBS snapshot backups from a FreeBSD zfs file system: zpool freeze?

[Julian Elischer]

On 7/4/13 7:56 AM, Berend de Boer wrote:
>>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> writes:
>      Jeremy> As politely as I can: It sounds like you may have spent
>      Jeremy> too much time with these types of setups, or believe them
>      Jeremy> to be "magical" in some way, in turn forgetting the
>      Jeremy> realities of bare metal and instead thinking "everything
>      Jeremy> is software".  Bzzt.
>
> Heh. The solution with Amazon is even worse: if things go wrong,
> you're screwed. Can't get your disks back. You can't call
> anyone. There's no bare metal to touch, and no, they won't let you
> into their data centres.
>
> So I'm actually trying to avoid the magic.
>
> The only guarantee I basically have is that if I have made an EBS
> snapshot of my disk, I can, one day, restore that, and that this
> snapshot is stored in some multi-redundancy (magic!) cloud.
>
> (And obviously you can try to run a mirror in another data centre
> using zfs send/recv, yes, will run that too).
>
> If you go with AWS, there are no phone calls to make. Disk gone is
> disk gone. So you need to have working backup strategies in place.
put your data on multiple data centers using a panzura box

>
> --
> All the best,
>
> Berend de Boer
>
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