On Mon, 6 May 2019, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Am 30.04.2019 um 18:07 schrieb Walter Cramer <wfc at
mintsol.com>:
>> With even a 1Gbit ethernet connection to your main system, savvy use of
>> (say) rsync (net/rsync in Ports), and the sort of "know your data
/
>> divide & conquer" tactics that Karl mentions, you should be
able to
>> complete initial backups (on both backup servers) in <1 month.
After
>> that - rsync can generally do incremental backups far, far faster.
>
> ZFS can do incremental snapshots and send/receive much faster than rsync
> on the file level. And e.g. FreeNAS comes with all the bells and
> whistles already in place - just a matter of point and click to
> replicate one set of datasets on one server to another one ???
>
True. But I was making a brief suggestion to Michelle - who does not seem
to be a trusting fan of ZFS - hoping that she might actually implement it,
or something similar. Or at least an already-tediously-long mailing list
thread would end. Rsync is good enough for her situation, and would let
her use UFS on her off-site backup servers, if she preferred
that.>
> *Local* replication is a piece of cake today, if you have the hardware.
>
> Kind regards,
> Patrick
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