[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

[Judah Richardson]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:15 AM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 02:57:13PM -0700, Joshua M. Clulow via
> openindiana-discuss wrote:
> >
> > You may wish to investigate "zrepl" as well, which has some neat
> features:
> >
> >     https://zrepl.github.io/
>
> ZnapZend and zrepl are actually very similar in function: they both do
> replication of ZFS filesystems.  I wondered at first that these two
> backup systems had no facilites for restores, like you get with a
> traditional backup system.  However, I soon realized that if you had a
> replica, you could just copy a file to restore it.  Alternatively, you
> could recreate an entire filesystem from a replica.
>
> The system I used formerly, zetaback, only stored "zfs send" streams on
> the backup device.  That's something that's failure-prone, according to
> all the ZFS documents I've read.
>
> The only disadvantage of zrepl that I've encountered so far is that it
> does not have an OI package.
>
Ironically, zrepl <https://repology.org/project/zrepl/versions> has more
distro repo packages than znapzend
<https://repology.org/project/znapzend/versions> has ;)

Yes, this was a surprise to me too, hahaha.

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