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...zfs is the offsite storage system can also be generic hardware and thus much cheaper. Being able to run a postgresql or mysql directly on the storage server has was postives as well, although a generic storage appliance has a better admin profile. Some questions: 1. how stable is zfs? i''m tolarent to some sweat work to fix problems but data loss is unacceptable 2. If drives need to be pulled and put into a new chasis does zfs handle them having new device names and being out of order? 3. Is it possible to hot swap drives with raidz(2) 4. How does performance compare with ''brand n...

...ue to anasty bug of the new rsync version: If I have configured a "--backup-dir" and the new rsync version finds a second file which has to get deposited there, it is thinking that it is an error 23 that the backup directory already is existing. This is more than nasty for me, it is not tolarable if I like to track my server's activities with the help of rsync return codes - which indeed all the time was a huge improvement over any ftp protocol mirroring, the main advantage beneath the true "inode data mirroring" of rsync in my opinion. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (...

I recently used the Xen virtual machine backup tools, such as ''xm save'' command. And I found that before this tool save the memory and CPU state, it first pauses the VM. Do Xen have same tools for online backup the VMs? If it do not have one, can I saty that Xen don''t support VM online backup? -- View this message in context: