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ZFS backups are easier than anything else I’ve used. I just zap incremental snapshots over to an rsync.net ZFS account. For drives dying, I just ordered the 3
by wyager 5y ago
ZFS backups are easier than anything else I’ve used. I just zap incremental snapshots over to an rsync.net ZFS account.
For drives dying, I just ordered the 3 drives in my zpool from 3 different websites (Newegg, Amazon, and someone I forget) so they’d be different batches.
- walrus01 5y ago> ZFS backups are easier the weak point in home based geographically unique off-site backups (like, put a small zfs box in your family member's house) is that while the ordinary residential internet user might have cablemodem service with 500 Mbps down, you may also have only 16-20Mbps up. Good luck backing up 15-20TB over 16Mbps upstream and possible 1TB/month quotas from an ISP.
- Jemm 5y agoReality here is lucky to have 50MBps down and 7MBps up and I am in the fourth largest city in North America. More likely 30/3 with actual throughput being 20/1.
- wyager 5y agoIf you don’t have enough bandwidth to do incremental ZFS snapshot backups, you don’t have enough bandwidth to do any kind of backups. ZFS incremental snapshots are more efficient than anything else I’ve used, e.g. rsync.