Hello and thanks for reading this,
one of my customers are using a FreeNAS for storage with great success. The problem we have is over time their data usage has increased significantly. At the moment they are using ZFS replication to replicate off-site this is working well but now it can not keep up with the replication speed. Unfortunately upgrading speed is not an option as the location does not have faster connection and we can not get extra line as there is non available to the the site.
I know I can move the servers together but they are heavy and I would prefer not to move either server if possible. I have read about ZFS replication to USB drive but it does not mention if this could be used to seed ZFS replication across WAN. If it is possible has anyone done this? Is it just a case of using replication to replicate then importing the export and then changing the target for the replication. If this method would not work would I be better using rsync?
Thank you very much for your time.
one of my customers are using a FreeNAS for storage with great success. The problem we have is over time their data usage has increased significantly. At the moment they are using ZFS replication to replicate off-site this is working well but now it can not keep up with the replication speed. Unfortunately upgrading speed is not an option as the location does not have faster connection and we can not get extra line as there is non available to the the site.
I know I can move the servers together but they are heavy and I would prefer not to move either server if possible. I have read about ZFS replication to USB drive but it does not mention if this could be used to seed ZFS replication across WAN. If it is possible has anyone done this? Is it just a case of using replication to replicate then importing the export and then changing the target for the replication. If this method would not work would I be better using rsync?
Thank you very much for your time.