znapzend VS sanoid

I have rather nice experience with ZnapZend https://www.znapzend.org/

Only issue i've found is the fact there is no official Debian repository and i always do forget to recompile it after upgrading Debian :-D

I really like the configuration system integrated in ZFS set/get...

Hi, I'm using zfs on my home server since years. (Proxmox host). Never had any problems, I'm using https://www.znapzend.org/ for automatic snapshot which are cheap (time and required space) and they get synced with my backup server.

If you need something that’s more for peace of mind than for rigorous backup policy, you could use the ZFS storage driver, and do periodic snapshots of the whole tree, or use some shell scripting to enumerate the volumes you care about and zfs snapshot or zfs send them somewhere safe.

znapzend is a perl application for snapping, sending, and receiving.

The official documentation is overly complicated for this purpose. A simple example config is:

OK question time! I have znapzend configured via znapzendzetup. Now need to set up a matching OpenIndiana service as described here.

I’m on the other end of the spectrum. I like knowing the flags and settings I use to create the pools.

For snapshots and replication take a look at sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid).

I use a combo of PBS and ZFS with Sanoid. The ZFS snapshots are nice because you define it all in a config file with frequent, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly snaps retained however you want. Importantly I use that on the root pool as well as my data pools. With PBS I have a custom retention config and have it backing up VMs and LXCs every couple hours. The PBS dedupe functionality makes it possible to keep full backups going back ages with minimal storage consumption, just the changed blocks. PBS is running inside a VM yes, but it’s storage is on another pool.

[3] https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/

No, it's written by the developer of Sanoid and Syncoid. The foremost open source ZFS snapshotting tool. He contributes on this sub all the time.

Hi there! Not so much to answer your questions, but are you aware of Sanoid and syncoid? It does backup and remote Sync in the most seamless way. Perhaps this would solve some of your concerns...