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Cloud Backup

Postby Dismayed » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:26 am

I'm looking for a cloud backup solution that will work with ZFS. I've been using CrashPlan because I like automated backups, but they are exiting the home market. So what have people here been using? And are there any tips and tricks needed to enable ZFS backups with the various cloud vendors? Something reasonable in cost would be good - i have about 4 TB to back up.
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby Dismayed » Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:17 pm

You guys are backing up your data, aren't you?
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby lundman » Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:20 pm

I don't. Or rather, I have zpools in multiple locations/countries, and just "zfs send -i" between them :)
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby Brendon » Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:55 am

Me either. Zfs send or rsync to NAS.
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby FadingIntoBlue » Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:32 am

I grabbed an article on these guys back in December 2015. Haven't used them, just thought I might want to one of these days.

https://www.rsync.net/cloudstorage.html

That said, I'm looking into Backblaze, their price is pretty good, as is their supporting the HD using community with regular reliability reports. Backing up to NAS, with infrequent offsite backups and small cloud backups of the most precious files.
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby FadingIntoBlue » Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:37 am

Oops, should have mentioned,

Our open-standards based platform is a ZFS filesystem, accessible with any SSH/SFTP tool, running on a UNIX system.


https://www.rsync.net/products/platform.html#zfs
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby Dismayed » Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:59 am

FadingIntoBlue wrote:I grabbed an article on these guys back in December 2015. Haven't used them, just thought I might want to one of these days.

https://www.rsync.net/cloudstorage.html

That said, I'm looking into Backblaze, their price is pretty good, as is their supporting the HD using community with regular reliability reports. Backing up to NAS, with infrequent offsite backups and small cloud backups of the most precious files.


I have a large photo archive of several TB, so the rsync pricing at $40/TB each month is a bit high.
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby Dismayed » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:56 am

I received this reply from Backblaze:

"We do not currently support backing up ZFS volumes."
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby glessard » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:07 am

Avoiding the /Volumes/ hierarchy may be all that's necessary to make Backblaze back up a ZFS volume:

https://github.com/openzfsonosx/zfs/issues/116#issuecomment-230577195

I'd love to hear whether this has changed.
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Re: Cloud Backup

Postby Dismayed » Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:45 am

glessard wrote:Avoiding the /Volumes/ hierarchy may be all that's necessary to make Backblaze back up a ZFS volume:

https://github.com/openzfsonosx/zfs/issues/116#issuecomment-230577195

I'd love to hear whether this has changed.


Thank you for the link. Arq backup to Backblaze B2 looks very promising.
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