thatflashcat
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For a bit of context I just built a Freenas system and just installed the latest version of Freenas (I think it's the December 5th release, so not technically latest I guess). The specs are as follows in case they are needed:
CPU: Intel Xeon 2650 V2
Motherboard: Supermicro X9 SRL-F
RAM: 64 gb ddr3 ECC 1333Mhz
Drive Controller: LSI H220
Drives: 6x Seagate Enterprise 4TB 7200 RPM (I forget the model)
I'm confident that I could set everything up but I'd like some input on "best" practice.
Users and groups: I'm planning to create a group and add a couple of users to own different datasets.
Pool, volume, and dataset: One pool with multiple datasets for different types of data. Should I make one top level dataset and add others within it?
Shares: One per dataset.
Snapshots: No snapshots on the dataset for windows backups, I'm trying to decide how often to do it for regular data. For documents that are small and often accessed, a short interval would make sense but there is no need to make snapshots for long term data storage (or at least not many).
I took a look at this and like the ideas behind it: https://b3n.org/zfs-hierarchy/
Basically I'm just looking for input because I'm paranoid about doing this right. :P
CPU: Intel Xeon 2650 V2
Motherboard: Supermicro X9 SRL-F
RAM: 64 gb ddr3 ECC 1333Mhz
Drive Controller: LSI H220
Drives: 6x Seagate Enterprise 4TB 7200 RPM (I forget the model)
I'm confident that I could set everything up but I'd like some input on "best" practice.
Users and groups: I'm planning to create a group and add a couple of users to own different datasets.
Pool, volume, and dataset: One pool with multiple datasets for different types of data. Should I make one top level dataset and add others within it?
Shares: One per dataset.
Snapshots: No snapshots on the dataset for windows backups, I'm trying to decide how often to do it for regular data. For documents that are small and often accessed, a short interval would make sense but there is no need to make snapshots for long term data storage (or at least not many).
I took a look at this and like the ideas behind it: https://b3n.org/zfs-hierarchy/
Basically I'm just looking for input because I'm paranoid about doing this right. :P