[Wolves] Backups

[Adam Sweet]

On 05/12/2019 11:51, Simon Burke via Wolves wrote:
> Hi everybody...
> 
> My current backup solution is quite a mix of rsync, 'Veeam Agent of Linux',
> and a couple of hosts via zfs snapshots.
> 
> Apparently Veeam doesn't like backing up to a ZFS pool with deduplication
> enabled. Where Veeam has decided files are missing, and then refuses to
> back up (disabling deduplication resolves it). Veeam free Linux agent also
> refuses to backup ZFS volumes.
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation on what I can use as one platform to
> backup my environment? Almost all of it is VMWare based, and I am trying to
> back up to a NAS (Debian with a large'ish ZFs pool), and to a Drive
> attached to the NAS that's taken off site weekly.
> 
> I have been toying with bareos, but I've not had chance to invest much time
> into it.


Tbh I haven't really touched ZFS much so this is a bit of an
unsophisticated response, but have you looked at zfs-send? Not sure
whether it handles deduplication though.

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