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Disaster Recovery with ZFS and Zrepl
My SSD suddenly died. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS and zrepl.
One of the flagship features of ZFS is the ability to take efficient point-in-time snapshots while it’s running. To automate taking snapshots and sending them to my NAS, I’m using a really cool piece of software called zrepl(by@problame). Since the snapshots are incremental, this is fine to run in the background on my home network to keep the replica up to date.
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