zrepl VS watchtower

Lastly there is zrepl. This is an automatic snapshot creation, pruning and replication daemon. It lets you automate the creation of ZFS snapshots at specific intervals, apply a retention policy to them, and replicate them out to a remote system with ZFS, like a NAS with TrueNAS on it.

I run it in a FreeBSD jail and take frequent ZFS snapshots using zrepl. I’ve had to restore after failed updates and it worked flawlessly.

As others have noted, I use syncoid but zrepl is an alternative that could be considered.

I’m going to throw out Zrepl again because it’s amazing: https://zrepl.github.io/

Current idea: We offer some form of container each other, where we have that zvol mounted somewhere for the replication use. This would mean that I could create an "inside zfs" where I create a filebased zpool. How is performance on a filebased zpool? (Although it is technically not so important that it performs critically, just trying to find the - or one of - "best" ways). Then we would offer each an ssh endpoint into that container (It doesn't have to be ssh, but it is so far convenient to setup and resilient to be open to the public). And my current plan is to use zrepl (https://zrepl.github.io/) to organise replication from my home server to this "inside" zpool.

Related: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

> if you're using the docker image, upgrades are a breeze. Just bump the tag on the image, redeploy, and you're done.

Or you could just run Watchtower beside it and it will automatically update your docker containers. https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower If you are OK with automated updates.

So i primarily use containers on my local machine walled off from the internet, so it's not a big concern for me. Watchtower [1] is popular among home server users too which automatically updates containers to the latest image.

For production uses I think companies generally build their own containers. They would have a common base linux container and build the other containers based off that with a typical CI/CD pipeline. So if glibc is patched, it's probably patched in the base container and the others are then rebuilt. You don't have to patch each container individually, just the base. Production also minimizes the scope of containers with nothing installed except what's necessary so they have few dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

You can use Watchtower (https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/) that solves problem of manual pulling on VPS.

I checked https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/ and Arguments, but I don't understand where to attach that using portainer.

Again, there are options to automate some of the burden here by using tools such as Watchtower.

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