Backup and Deduplication
by nooobeee from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5946X)
I'm a long time light linux user. The more I get to know, the more I realize I don't know. I'd consider myself a noob so please be gentle. I setup my home lab using Xen and built Orchestra. Orchestra is working well to backup my 12 (mostly debian) VMs. But I chose to do disk passthrough for freenas so the vm could directly access the disks.
I'm Looking for backup software and filesystem suggestions/solutions. I have about 2.5TB of 90+% static content. I'd like to do monthly fulls with daily inc/diff. Nice to have would be replicating periodically to a cloud solution like backblaze (if there are other equally cost-effective options, please let me know).
I'll have a VM that is on the same hypervisor as the freenas server. This VM will backup the freenas data over NFS or iSCSI to an external NAS.
In a past life (well over a decade ago), I used bacula. I use Veeam in my corporate life and I know they have a free option but that would require a windoze vm which I'm hoping to avoid in my home lab. What solutions are others using?
What filesystem should I go for and how does that work with NFS/iSCSI? I would really like to have dedupe so I can keep as many versions as possible. I don't really trust btrfs. I like the looks of ZFS (yes, I have plenty of spare RAM for this) but am a bit worried about support/functionality in Linux. I'm not opposed to something that isn't inline dedup. Thoughts?
I'm Looking for backup software and filesystem suggestions/solutions. I have about 2.5TB of 90+% static content. I'd like to do monthly fulls with daily inc/diff. Nice to have would be replicating periodically to a cloud solution like backblaze (if there are other equally cost-effective options, please let me know).
I'll have a VM that is on the same hypervisor as the freenas server. This VM will backup the freenas data over NFS or iSCSI to an external NAS.
In a past life (well over a decade ago), I used bacula. I use Veeam in my corporate life and I know they have a free option but that would require a windoze vm which I'm hoping to avoid in my home lab. What solutions are others using?
What filesystem should I go for and how does that work with NFS/iSCSI? I would really like to have dedupe so I can keep as many versions as possible. I don't really trust btrfs. I like the looks of ZFS (yes, I have plenty of spare RAM for this) but am a bit worried about support/functionality in Linux. I'm not opposed to something that isn't inline dedup. Thoughts?