Single disk zpool on Centos?

[rogerh]

I have set up a NAS using FreeNAS 9.2.1.5 on an HP Microserver with 4 1TB disks in a RAIDZ2 pool. I want to do periodic backups of this, and I have available a Centos6.5 server, on similar hardware, with a spare 3TB hdd The obvious way to do this is with rsync. But would it be feasible to run ZFS on Centos just using this one disk so I could use ZFS replication for backup, with the benefit of snapshots and, possibly, reasonable transfer speed? Or would this be so hard to set up reliably and with appropriate monitoring that it would not amount to an adequate backup?
I can't run FreeNAS on the Centos server as it is doing lots of other, low intensity but important, jobs.

 

[cyberjock]

You tell us.. we aren't CentOS specialists....

I can tell you that if CentOS has a version of ZFS that is reliable and compatible with the ZFS that everyone else uses, snapshots and replication work, you *should* be able to get it to work.

 

[rogerh]

Well, I was mainly asking in case there was an obvious reason not to try it, so I'll take that as guardedly encouraging! Thanks.