Hi all,
I've been thinking about a couple of ideas I have for my next server and I hope you can assist.
I want to use three old hard drives for backing up my entire server each day as follows:
Currently when I use ZFS send/receive I compress the ZFS file it creates with gunzip. The question I have is (with the required RAM), will dedup help save space in this scenario? Will dedup work on gunzip files (i.e.: filename.zfs.gz) and tar files?
When running these types of backups (full system backups) there's obviously going to be plenty of duplication each day as there will be many files on the system that won't change. Will dedup help me here? All the backup and system drives will be encrypted with geli.
I think I know all the downsides to running dedup on a FreeBSD system so I will be installing 16 GB of ECC RAM in this server (later upgradeable to 32 GB). The ZFS root and boot directory are only 120 GB in total.
Am I on the right track in thinking that dedup in this case will help me save lots of disk space? FYI: I won't be running dedup on the ZFS root and boot directory. dedup will only be running on the three backup drives mentioned above.
Thanks guys!
I've been thinking about a couple of ideas I have for my next server and I hope you can assist.
I want to use three old hard drives for backing up my entire server each day as follows:
- 1 x 300 GB for daily
ZFS send/receive
(used for DR scenarios) - 1 x 300 GB for daily tar backups (used for restoring deleted files/directories)
- 1 x 500 GB used for monthly backups (probably a mixture of tar and/or
ZFS send/receive
)
Currently when I use ZFS send/receive I compress the ZFS file it creates with gunzip. The question I have is (with the required RAM), will dedup help save space in this scenario? Will dedup work on gunzip files (i.e.: filename.zfs.gz) and tar files?
When running these types of backups (full system backups) there's obviously going to be plenty of duplication each day as there will be many files on the system that won't change. Will dedup help me here? All the backup and system drives will be encrypted with geli.
I think I know all the downsides to running dedup on a FreeBSD system so I will be installing 16 GB of ECC RAM in this server (later upgradeable to 32 GB). The ZFS root and boot directory are only 120 GB in total.
Am I on the right track in thinking that dedup in this case will help me save lots of disk space? FYI: I won't be running dedup on the ZFS root and boot directory. dedup will only be running on the three backup drives mentioned above.
Thanks guys!