Re: Data disaster preparedness and recovery without RAID

2023-12-14 Thread Pocket
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 14, 2023, at 1:51 PM, David Christensen > wrote: > > On 12/14/23 08:04, Pocket wrote: >>> On Dec 14, 2023, at 4:09 AM, David Christensen >>> wrote: >>> Another benefit of ZFS snapshots is that they are are atomic. (Yet another >>> is that they are taken quickly

Re: Data disaster preparedness and recovery without RAID

2023-12-14 Thread David Christensen
On 12/14/23 08:04, Pocket wrote: On Dec 14, 2023, at 4:09 AM, David Christensen wrote: Another benefit of ZFS snapshots is that they are are atomic. (Yet another is that they are taken quickly.) So long as your app or service has its files in a consistent state (ideally, closed), restoring

Re: Data disaster preparedness and recovery without RAID

2023-12-14 Thread Pocket
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 14, 2023, at 4:09 AM, David Christensen > wrote: > > On 12/13/23 08:51, Pocket wrote: >> I gave up using raid many years ago and I used the extra drives as backups. >> Wrote a script to rsync /home to the backup drives. > > > While external HDD enclosures can wo

Data disaster preparedness and recovery without RAID

2023-12-14 Thread David Christensen
On 12/13/23 08:51, Pocket wrote: I gave up using raid many years ago and I used the extra drives as backups. Wrote a script to rsync /home to the backup drives. While external HDD enclosures can work, my favorite is mobile racks: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/drw150satbk https://www.