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[–] BoneALisa@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How has zfs replaced rsync for you? One is a filesystem, and the other is a filesyncing tool. Does zfs do something im not aware of lol?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I used to use rsync to copy data from my storage array on one machine to an external and an off site backup. Since a lot of it was code, it always took forever to scan all the small files, and I had to script unlocking remote partitions.

With encrypted ZFS, I can just zfs snap then zfs send, and it does the same thing at the block level, raw, so way faster, less data transfer, and no need to send a key or passphrase unless I need to mount it at the destination (meaning a cloud provider could never know the data, for instance).

ZFS is also recursive, so if I have s/storage and /storage/stuff defined, I can snap and send either level, which makes it as versatile as rsync.

[–] BoneALisa@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Oh interesting, i am not super familar with zfs' tools, so thats pretty cool! Ill have to look at that for my storage array.