So I've been planning to get my backup solution created for some time now after getting my new FreeNAS box up and running. Things have settled down a little and I'm trying to figure out exactly HOW to backup my data. Sure I can go into the GUI and schedule periodic snapshots, and maybe even restore those snapshots successfully. There should be much more to it than that.
I can't seem to find any easy to understand backup tutorial regarding ZFS. If I can't find it, I'm sure others can't either. Everyone preaches that your data isn't safe without backups, but without a straight-forward way for the average user to backup the data, you're stuck.
I recently found myself in a dilemma because I added two disks to a zpool incorrectly. Instead of adding the disks as a mirror of the two disk pool, I striped the pool across those two disks as well (resulting in a 4 disk stripe). By doing so, I've just doubled the likelihood of a failure resulting in data loss. Now I need to move that data off of those drives onto a temporary drive so I can re-create the pool correctly, as well as nail down a good backup strategy for both my zvol and zpool datasets.
With a little help, hopefully I'll be able to lay out a good backup/restore strategy for the average user to adopt/implement to help protect their data.
I can't seem to find any easy to understand backup tutorial regarding ZFS. If I can't find it, I'm sure others can't either. Everyone preaches that your data isn't safe without backups, but without a straight-forward way for the average user to backup the data, you're stuck.
I recently found myself in a dilemma because I added two disks to a zpool incorrectly. Instead of adding the disks as a mirror of the two disk pool, I striped the pool across those two disks as well (resulting in a 4 disk stripe). By doing so, I've just doubled the likelihood of a failure resulting in data loss. Now I need to move that data off of those drives onto a temporary drive so I can re-create the pool correctly, as well as nail down a good backup strategy for both my zvol and zpool datasets.
With a little help, hopefully I'll be able to lay out a good backup/restore strategy for the average user to adopt/implement to help protect their data.