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    • K Offline
      KPS Top contributor
      last edited by

      Hi!

      I want to bring backups "off-site". The easiest thing for me would be to use SSHFS to mount the off-site-filesystem.

      Are you using such a combination?
      How about the performance?

      Are you happy with that setup?

      Thank you and best wishes
      KPS

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        SSH FS perf won't be great (to say the least). Have you tried Mirror Backup?

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        • K Offline
          KPS Top contributor @olivierlambert
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          @olivierlambert
          My idea was/is to use "mirror backup", but in every case, I have to introduce the "remote-filesystem" to XOA.
          So I have to

          • mount the remote-filesystem to "local"
          • of use SMB/NFS

          SSHFS was my idea to be able to mount the remote-filesystem and then to add a "mirror" to get the local backups offsite...

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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            That would work 🙂 However, the perf level won't be terrific, but that might be enough to you 🙂

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            • K Offline
              kerdiby 3rd party vendor
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              Because SSHFS uses the SSH protocol, all the data transferred between the server and client needs to be encrypted and decrypted. This means there's a slight drop in performance compared to NFS, and it puts a bit more strain on the CPU of both the client and server. But SSHFS can be handy for accessing remote files on a temporary basis. It may be enough for you.😊

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              • jedimarcusJ Offline
                jedimarcus
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                I'm using zfs & syncoid to pull my XOA backups to another location of a 1Gb/s link:

                ---------------  Mon 21 Feb 2022 08:00:01 - syncing  -------------
                Sending incremental tank/mbox5/xoa-vm-backup@syncoid_iron.ion.lu_2022-02-20:08:00:02-GMT01:00 ... syncoid_iron.ion.lu_2022-02-21:08:00:02-GMT01:00 (~ 1392.4 GB):
                ---------------  Mon 21 Feb 2022 10:19:27 - done  -------------
                

                183.37MB/s over 1Gbit/s Link sounds great.

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                  BTW, you have now mirror backups to do this, and it's also pretty fast 🙂

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                  • K Offline
                    KPS Top contributor @olivierlambert
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                    @olivierlambert
                    I am trying the same, currently, but ZFS-sync seems to be a lot faster, than the "backup-mirror", but has the limitation of not "selecting", what to sync.

                    Additional to this, ZFS can do encryption AND compression at the same time.

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                    • jedimarcusJ Offline
                      jedimarcus @KPS
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                      Some time ago I read "ZFS - the billion dollar file system" and the more time I spend with it, the more I think that's true

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