[geeks] Solaris root backups

[U'll Be King of the Stars]

On 27/07/2021 14:37, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 7/26/21 7:10 PM, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:

>> Does any of this touch on your problem, Phil?

> Not really.  :)

OK cool.  Thanks for replying anyway :-)

> But I looked at the creation dates on all of the
> filesystems I was looking at, and concluded that considering I have full
> separate backups and that those were created during updates, I don't
> need any of them.  If I ever have to do a full bare-metal recovery I'll
> install direct to 11.4 anyway, or possibly move to an OpenSolaris
> implementation.

I'm a family man now you may assume where my priorities are and that I 
don't have as much time for this kind of stuff as I used to.  I tried to 
set up my own business, buy flying solo didn't work out to my advantage.

Anyway, are you an Illumos/OpenSolaris developer?  Or user?  I would 
LOVE to run Solaris with ZFS natively paired up with my copious free time.

As for ZFS on Linux or *BSD, I have no interest, really.  LVM+XFS or 
Btrfs is where it's at for me on Linux.  NetBSD is interesting to me for 
other reasons; and with OpenBSD you will have an uninspired file server. 
  And as for Stratis, erm.

I live in a tiny central London apartment with a 5 year-old daughter and 
my partner her mother.  The primary and secondary backup servers are a 
luxury because they are on only for a short amount of time each day.

If anybody knows of a compact cabinet or rack for about 12U total, 
please let me know.  Dampening of acoustical vibration would be a major, 
major positive factor if possible.

Kind regards,

Andrew