[OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

[Lucas Van Tol]

I also go with rsync for other OS -> ZFS; you can also use ssh keys and use the forced command behaviour to manage snapshots.
Deltacopy on windows seems to interact nicely in such an environment; or just using 'cron' jobs on Linux/Mac clients. 

For ZFS based transfers; I just have cron tasks on a 'backup' server that pull down zfs snapshot differentials over SSH.    

Not sure about any existing packages; I have puppet managing most of my systems and it just distributes necessary SSH keys and cron tasks ...

-Lucas Van Tol

> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:20:09 +0200
> From: michael at zandy.nl
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects
> 
> Is zfs send and zfs recv not an option?
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/gbchx.html#gbinw
> (Sending a ZFS Snapshot)
> 
>  From Nexenta course I once followed; Snapshot early, snapshot often. 
> It's better to do snapshots every 5 minutes and send that differential 
> snapshot to a second machine with zfs send/recv, than to use other means 
> of backing up live systems.
> 
> Op 11-9-2012 19:47, Jim Klimov schreef:
> > 2012-09-11 18:56, Mark Creamer wrote:
> >> A recent thread caused me to look for open source projects that leverage
> >> ZFS to backup systems. I found a couple, such as OmniTI's
> >> Zetaback<http://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback>,
> >> but that one appears to be dead - at least the links don't work and 
> >> the Git
> >> page shows no recent activity. Nexenta's commercial product for Windows,
> >> "Delorean", also appears to have been killed (unfortunately without 
> >> first
> >> being released to the community as far as I can tell). Wondering if 
> >> anyone
> >> knows of any other projects that use scripts or some other method to 
> >> manage
> >> system backups with zfs. I'm hoping to build on the ideas of someone 
> >> more
> >> knowledgeable to automate my snapshot and recovery efforts.
> >
> >
> > Regarding backup of other OSes to ZFS servers and leveraging ZFS
> > from there on, I can suggest rsync (or cwrsync in case of Windows
> > clients). This is easily automatable on clients (push to rsync
> > server) or on the server (pull from clients), provided that you
> > set up the security/logins appropriately.
> >
> > The ZFS-enabled server can take care of snapshotting successful
> > rsync run results, deduplication if appropriately spec'ed, etc.
> >
> > I posted an enhanced SMF script and config file snippets on OI
> > wiki to run the rsync server and take ZFS auto-snapshots after
> > successful completion of incoming rsync sessions (push mode);
> > it is even more trivial in pull mode initiated by the server -
> > it can "mkdir .../.zfs/snapshot/$SNAPNAME" given the proper
> > access via "zfs allow").
> >
> > HTH,
> > //Jim Klimov
> >
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