rsnapshot-parallel
Today we released rsnapshot-parallel to Github. While we’ve used rsnapshot for years, recently with the proliferation of virtual machines we’ve noticed our backups running much… Read More »rsnapshot-parallel
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ZFS Pools on md Devices Considered Dangerous
I’ll revise this post later, but just for now – because in the past I’ve mentioned encrypted zpools over linux md devices for backups –… Read More »ZFS Pools on md Devices Considered Dangerous
Fixing Bad Drive Sectors on Linux
There’s some weird thing with modern SATA drives where they will fail a sector on read, but do the proper rewriting when asked to, and… Read More »Fixing Bad Drive Sectors on Linux
Expanding a ZFS filesystem on LUKS/md-raid
I run my backups on a stack that consists of: md-raid mirror LUKS encryption ZFS zvol This works nicely as it’s easy to split off… Read More »Expanding a ZFS filesystem on LUKS/md-raid