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Have you guys thought about giving Windows ZFS volumes over iSCSI and then take ZFS snapshots? For example with SQL Server, it should be possible to talk to the
by olavgg 10y ago
Have you guys thought about giving Windows ZFS volumes over iSCSI and then take ZFS snapshots? For example with SQL Server, it should be possible to talk to the SQL Writer Service and create a consistent database snapshot of a live SQL Server database with ZFS.
When this snapshot is taken you can send & recv the diff to a remote backup server.
- greedo 10y agoOur experience with iSCSI hasn't been very good; its use is limited to some dev ESX systems. Our DBAs prefer to perform cold backups that we backup with traditional tools (Avamar).
- ryao 10y agoI believe that SoftNAS is able to do that when Windows is using Samba shares hosted on ZFS.
- leostrat 10y agoYou're right. Here's more info about it: https://www.softnas.com/docs/softnas/v3/html-reference-guide/configuring_cifs_shares.html https://www.softnas.com/docs/softnas/v3/html-reference-guide...