rsync.net now supports ZFS send and receive on their cloud storage platform

[John Hixson]

rsync.net has contacted us again regarding their support for ZFS send and receive. Here is the announcement:

rsync.net now supports ZFS send and receive on their cloud storage platform.

It works just like you'd expect it to and, as in the past, there is a special
rate for members of the FreeNAS forums - 6 cents per GB/month for a ZFS
enabled account. There is a 1TB minimum size:

https://www.rsync.net/signup/signup_offer.html?code=7e5f5d

As always, there are no charges for traffic/usage/bandwidth.

If you're not familiar with rsync.net, these links might be helpful:

http://www.rsync.net/products/platform.html
http://www.rsync.net/resources/faq.html
http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

 

[depasseg]

$60/month minimum (1TB) is pretty steep. But it's a very cool capability.

 

[fta]

$60/month minimum (1TB) is pretty steep. But it's a very cool capability.

Exactly my thoughts. And that's the "special" rate.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

And that's the "special" rate.

You have to take into account what they offer in terms of support.

 

[Fish]

Somewhat related, but they've got a ton of dead links on their site....makes a bit more cautious that they can't even handle a web front-end.

 

[rsync.net]

I am updating this very, very old thread to update the pricing that was discussed by depasseg and Robert.

As of this writing, our pricing for zfs send/recv capable accounts at rsync.net is 3c per GB, per month, and drops all the way down to 1 cent based on quantity:

https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

Everything you need to know is on that page - it works exactly how you'd expect it to: we give you a cloud storage account that you can zfs send to over SSH. You control your own zpool and can set up snapshots any way you'd like.

 

[depasseg]

Great pricing! Thanks for the update. How is pool/dataset encryption handled?

 

[Ericloewe]

It'll be really cool once native encryption is supported, so that everything can be encrypted by the user while still allowing for scrubs/resilvers.

 

[rsync.net]

Great pricing! Thanks for the update. How is pool/dataset encryption handled?

Right now, while zpool encryption is *not quite* in place on a -RELEASE FreeBSD distribution, we are giving rsync.net customers the option of having their zpools on top of geli-encrypted disk volumes (the standard recipe/config that you all know). So if you have regulatory requirements or contractual requirements for your cloud storage, those can be properly satisfied with this solution.

But, of course, the *ideal* solution is encrypted ZFS which we will immediately adopt after it is put into a -RELEASE version and we have a chance to test it for a few weeks .... at that time, existing customers *will be migrated* to the new version of ZFS which has the option of encryption ...

 

[rsync.net]

Another update to this thread ...

We now support ZFS encryption and "raw send". So, to answer Ericloewe and depasseg, upthread, we now have those in place. You can zfs send encrypted snapshots to an rsync.net account.

Pricing is now down to 2.0 cents per GB, per month for 10+ TB datasets. There are some additional discounts if you can talk to us over (only) ipv6.

Happy to answer any questions ...

 

[Ericloewe]

There are some additional discounts if you can talk to us over (only) ipv6.

What's the story there?

 

[foretell.concert]

What's the story there?

There are some additional discounts if you can talk to us over (only) ipv6.

I would also be interested in this information. Does the IPv6 native access apply to users under 10TB?