Description:
Overview of ZFS Replication, Archive and Backup
As with other features of ZFS, the traditionally complex is made simple and straight forward. This simplification can coax administrators into a false complacency.
In ZFS, backup, archive, migration... any activity that fundamentally involves the movement of data from one system to another, is a replication activity. I propose that the traditional idea of weekly backups is, in fact, just really slow replication.
