Hi everyone!
I have an NFS share, where I'm planning to store my backups. I created a raidz2 zpool on 7 sparse files on that NFS share and transferred snapshots using syncoid to that zpool.
It seems to me that it's a working solution, but I haven't done that before and wanted to hear your opinion on this topic.
I'm now aware that failing NFS server can make the server I connected it to unresponsive, so, to minimize the chance of data corruption in that zpool, I'm planning to mount and import zpool before the backup process started and export+umount when it's finished.
Other than that, are there any disadvantages or pitfalls in having a zpool on sparse files?
I'm using ZoL 0.7.5 on ubuntu 18.04
Thank you for replies in advance
I have an NFS share, where I'm planning to store my backups. I created a raidz2 zpool on 7 sparse files on that NFS share and transferred snapshots using syncoid to that zpool.
It seems to me that it's a working solution, but I haven't done that before and wanted to hear your opinion on this topic.
I'm now aware that failing NFS server can make the server I connected it to unresponsive, so, to minimize the chance of data corruption in that zpool, I'm planning to mount and import zpool before the backup process started and export+umount when it's finished.
Other than that, are there any disadvantages or pitfalls in having a zpool on sparse files?
I'm using ZoL 0.7.5 on ubuntu 18.04
Thank you for replies in advance