Alpha-Inc.
Dabbler
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- Feb 15, 2021
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Hello everybody,
Recently there was a sale at my local IT store where I bought a bunch of HDDs. They now have been deployed to my backup server which will be located at my parents house in order tk have have backup located at a different place in order to be more secure of dataloss related to things like theft, fire or other events that may not be the systems fault. After the installation of my second server, I connected our homes via a VPN. Therefore, my server should be able to create the backup to the remote location over the internet. Regarding the backup, I‘m not sure whether to use Rsync or ZFS replication.
AFAIK, Rsync is a great tool to sync different folders. In my case, the source would be the main server at home the the destination would be the backup server at my kartend house. Every time the Rsync task is being executed, it checks for differences and syncs them after the main server. Is that correct?
And how does zfs replication work? I tried to read a bit about it and if I understand it correct, zfs uses snapshots, but how does this differ from Rsync?
This brings me to my main question - what is the best way to go for me to backup my main server to my remote backup server. Basically, I want the remote backup server to be identical to my main server. If any files gets deleted or altert, it should also apply tk the files on my backup server (like the name suggests). What may be also important, my upload speed is 40 Mbit/s.
Recently there was a sale at my local IT store where I bought a bunch of HDDs. They now have been deployed to my backup server which will be located at my parents house in order tk have have backup located at a different place in order to be more secure of dataloss related to things like theft, fire or other events that may not be the systems fault. After the installation of my second server, I connected our homes via a VPN. Therefore, my server should be able to create the backup to the remote location over the internet. Regarding the backup, I‘m not sure whether to use Rsync or ZFS replication.
AFAIK, Rsync is a great tool to sync different folders. In my case, the source would be the main server at home the the destination would be the backup server at my kartend house. Every time the Rsync task is being executed, it checks for differences and syncs them after the main server. Is that correct?
And how does zfs replication work? I tried to read a bit about it and if I understand it correct, zfs uses snapshots, but how does this differ from Rsync?
This brings me to my main question - what is the best way to go for me to backup my main server to my remote backup server. Basically, I want the remote backup server to be identical to my main server. If any files gets deleted or altert, it should also apply tk the files on my backup server (like the name suggests). What may be also important, my upload speed is 40 Mbit/s.