Re: [PLUG] Backups vs Copies: was Avoid Arvixe at all costs!

Rich Freeman on 17 Mar 2017 07:10:10 -0700

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Re: [PLUG] Backups vs Copies: was Avoid Arvixe at all costs!

From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Backups vs Copies: was Avoid Arvixe at all costs!
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:10:03 -0400
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Lee H. Marzke <lee@marzke.net> wrote:
>
> My VM volumes (servers) are just zfs snap/sent offsite nightly.  Zfs
> (freenas at this time )maintains several old snaps.
>

Are you using zfs volumes for this?  How do they generally perform for
VMs (lots of internal writes, presumably with some history of
snapshots/etc)?  I realize that this is what they were created for,
but I know that btrfs is terrible with this so I am curious.

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Rich
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- Re: [PLUG] Backups vs Copies: was Avoid Arvixe at all costs!
  - From: "Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>

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