Tag: zfs

• Using mbuffer to speed up slow zfs send | zfs receive – EveryCity | Managed Hosting Services

  This is an awesome bit of advice! I just sped up a zfs send that was crawling along at 60Mbps to over 600Mbps … I’m so stoked! zfs send -i data/filesystem@1 data/filesystem@2 | mbuffer -s 128k -m 1G -O 10.0.0.1:9090 via Using mbuffer to speed up slow zfs send | zfs receive – EveryCity |…

  jedreynolds

  November 11, 2013

  computing, Linux, shell scripting

  backups, zfs

• ZFS, Bash, and Piped Loops

  Fellow Linux Nutjobs! Here is your evening lesson in how to reclaim space from a ZFS partition by destroying snapshots. In my setup, my remote backup has a subset of the snapshots I’m automatically creating from my backup scripts. To reclaim space, I’m deleting those snapshots that have been backed up off-site. Assume alias Zfs=”sudo…

  jedreynolds

  November 6, 2013

  computing, Linux

  bash, Linux, zfs