Re: Compressing CPAN Testers test results for long-term archival storage

[email protected] (Scott Baker) Wed, 14 May 2025 08:32:32 -0700
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I don't know a lot about ZFS, but I do run several large installations 
of TrueNAS scale which is an enterprise grade NAS solution. The backend 
and all the "magic" is done with ZFS on Linux. As far as I can tell ZFS 
on Linux (if you can get around the licensing) is *pretty* mature.

-- Scottchiefbaker

On 5/14/25 6:57 AM, Doug Bell wrote:
>
> Yeah, that's how Zach Dysktra set up our MySQL database backups: The 
> primary MySQL wrote its binlogs to a ZFS volume, and the replica would 
> receive them and then use a ZFS snapshot to mark the backup point. 
> Then ZFS itself stored the diff between the snapshot point and the 
> current data.
>
> Long-term, I suspect that'll be what ends up happening w/ the 
> Collector system: ZFS really seems like the ideal solution for this, 
> as it has compression like we want, but also snapshotting and 
> replication and send/recv and etc... If there's anyone with some 
> expertise to lend about setting up some OpenZFS stuff, that'd be 
> awesome, because I'm not that up-to-date on it at the moment (I was 
> still thinking it was pretty unstable on Linux, but a cursory web 
> search I just did makes it seem like that is no longer the case).
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    <p>I don't know a lot about ZFS, but I do run several large
      installations of TrueNAS scale which is an enterprise grade NAS
      solution. The backend and all the "magic" is done with ZFS on
      Linux. As far as I can tell ZFS on Linux (if you can get around
      the licensing) is <b>pretty</b> mature.<br>
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    <p>-- Scottchiefbaker<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/14/25 6:57 AM, Doug Bell wrote:<br>
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      <div>Yeah, that's how Zach Dysktra set up our MySQL database
        backups: The primary MySQL wrote its binlogs to a ZFS volume,
        and the replica would receive them and then use a ZFS snapshot
        to mark the backup point. Then ZFS itself stored the diff
        between the snapshot point and the current data.</div>
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      </div>
      <div>Long-term, I suspect that'll be what ends up happening w/ the
        Collector system: ZFS really seems like the ideal solution for
        this, as it has compression like we want, but also snapshotting
        and replication and send/recv and etc... If there's anyone with
        some expertise to lend about setting up some OpenZFS stuff,
        that'd be awesome, because I'm not that up-to-date on it at the
        moment (I was still thinking it was pretty unstable on Linux,
        but a cursory web search I just did makes it seem like that is
        no longer the case).</div>
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