Hello all, I am trying to think of a backup strategy for my SmartOS box's zone data. Right now I am doing znapzend to an attached external hard drive, but I want to change my bacukps to a dedicated backup computer. I'm still pretty new to illumos, so I am interested in other peoples ideas. Currently, I am thinking of propping up an extra computer with OmniOS to handle this job.
I have a couple thoughts right now. One is to either let each zone do backups with something like sanoid. I imagine that should work with joyent and lx branded zones. The other idea is I noticed OmniOS has a page on zrepl, and that it has pull functionality. I bet I could do pull backups to my zones and snapshot/sync the zoned datasets. For the bhyve branded zones, I figure I will do what I do now with restic. What do you all think? The last thing I am wondering is how should I set up OmniOS? Should I let these backups happen in the global zone, or should I delegate a dataset to a non-global zone? Courtney ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tb9ca268d06c16ac1-M2839ff6c0da861d311f39e27 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
