[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

[Judah Richardson]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 4:48 PM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I'm looking for a backup system that uses ZFS facilities to integrate
> backup with ZFS.  Is there such a thing?
>
I assume you know there are gazillion ways to implement this, but if you
want an out of the box ZFS solution I'd say the *easiest* (note the
emphasis) option is either a TrueNAS Server
<https://www.truenas.com/systems-overview/> or a BYOD/DIY TrueNAS Core
<https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/> system.

>
> In addition, I'm looking for something that stores the backups on a
> single backup server, with network connections to multiple backup
> clients.  Of course, I would also like easy restores to ZFS
> filesystems.
>
See above.

>
> What are you using to backup ZFS files?
>
znapzend <https://www.znapzend.org/>, using this guide
<https://dev.to/jdrch/how-to-setup-znapzend-with-local-backup-on-openindiana-1f0p>.


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