Hans Otto Lunde
Cadet
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- Feb 19, 2022
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Hi
I'm a sysadmin and mainly a Linux-person, so I don't have any practical experience with TrueNAS and ZFS.
I like IXSystems and have their hardware running(Linux) in several places. Very pleased with them.
I bought a TrueNas Mini XL+ and WD Red NAS Pro disks to fill up the 8 bays it has.
But the machine comes with TrueNas installed and this version only supports ZFS for the storage system. So my question is:
This machine will only be used for nightly backups, using rsync to backup around 8-10 linux-servers and some other stuff.
Is it a good idea to use ZFS for this purpose? ZFS is rather demanding when it comes to ram and its COW-system in combination with maybe the RAIDZ2 could maybe be overkill for this. Will I be better of just using the old-school Linux-approach?
Danish greetings..
I'm a sysadmin and mainly a Linux-person, so I don't have any practical experience with TrueNAS and ZFS.
I like IXSystems and have their hardware running(Linux) in several places. Very pleased with them.
I bought a TrueNas Mini XL+ and WD Red NAS Pro disks to fill up the 8 bays it has.
But the machine comes with TrueNas installed and this version only supports ZFS for the storage system. So my question is:
This machine will only be used for nightly backups, using rsync to backup around 8-10 linux-servers and some other stuff.
Is it a good idea to use ZFS for this purpose? ZFS is rather demanding when it comes to ram and its COW-system in combination with maybe the RAIDZ2 could maybe be overkill for this. Will I be better of just using the old-school Linux-approach?
Danish greetings..