[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

[Gabriele Bulfon]

Thanx for the reply ;)
I read somewhere that NFS is much slower than having an iscsi device.
Somewherelse they said the contrary....
What if I have a virtual openindiana server? should I zfs over an exported zfs device?
Nooo...I don't think so....so NFS.
Is it good for cyrus/postfix and so on?
Then...what about a postgres db on NFS? and MySQL?
About windows.......should I boot on the iscsi disk? I don't think so...
What about SQLServer (...yes...people us it...) data files?...no way, just iscsi or local disks....
It's a complete mess....backup is a mess here...
But I love ZFS :) that's why I brainstorm at 22:00 here :)
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Da: Dan Swartzendruber
A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Data: 10 giugno 2011 21.37.39 CEST
Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots
A lot of questions :)  What I am doing for various servers: they are
backed up (excluding various dirs) to the OI box via rsync.  The rsyncd
config file is set up so that after every run, the destination directory
has a snapshot taken with the date&time;  I stopped using iSCSI for the
same reasons you mentioned, so NFS and CIFS (except my daughters win7
boxes, since win7 home will not back up to a network share, whereas an
iscsi target looks like a local disk.)
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