Hi folks,
I am very new to FreeBSD. I am a long time Linux user (since 1997). I support SuSE professionally and that used to be my choice for the home server.
I have recently decided to switch to FreeBSD because I like how "clean" this OS is (compared to the "systemd hell", "wicked" network interface management, etc..) and because I wanted to take advantage of a ZFS.
I am trying to decide on how to setup my backup. I used to run rsync using cron every night to sync my directories on an external hard drive and I would like to continue doing that in FreeBSD. I read about fantastic features like "zfs send" and "zfs receive", but I don't want to backup the complete pool, just selected directories.
My question is: does it make sense to use a ZFS on the external USB drive? If yes, do I need to always import and then export the pool after rsync is done with its job? Or should I use a different filesystem for my backups?
Perhaps there is even a better solution that I didn't think of?
I searched forum for answers, but I could not find anything that would match my scenario.
I am very new to FreeBSD. I am a long time Linux user (since 1997). I support SuSE professionally and that used to be my choice for the home server.
I have recently decided to switch to FreeBSD because I like how "clean" this OS is (compared to the "systemd hell", "wicked" network interface management, etc..) and because I wanted to take advantage of a ZFS.
I am trying to decide on how to setup my backup. I used to run rsync using cron every night to sync my directories on an external hard drive and I would like to continue doing that in FreeBSD. I read about fantastic features like "zfs send" and "zfs receive", but I don't want to backup the complete pool, just selected directories.
My question is: does it make sense to use a ZFS on the external USB drive? If yes, do I need to always import and then export the pool after rsync is done with its job? Or should I use a different filesystem for my backups?
Perhaps there is even a better solution that I didn't think of?
I searched forum for answers, but I could not find anything that would match my scenario.