ZFS storage and backup

[William Edwards]

> Op 14 nov. 2021 om 15:15 heeft infoomatic <infoomatic at gmx.at> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi listmembers,
> 
> I am about to migrate our mailservices to FreeBSD + ZFS. Thus, before
> entering the sheer endless  stage of performance testing, I thought I
> would ask here kindly for all kinds of information.
> 
> My setups are nothing special with few users, however, I would like to
> have a nice setup, maybe some of you could contribute to this thread. We
> are using slow spinning disks, but we may consider using ssds in a
> not-so-distant future

If performance is a concern, why not now?

> 
> *) storages: any infos on ZFS options or whether to use mdbox or sdbox,
> and what configs/options regarding compression etc.
> 
> *) backup: what is a best practice regarding backups? - using only the
> dovecot tools or leveraging the great features of ZFS (or both) with
> snapshots etc.?
> 
> Thanks for all sorts of infos, probably saving me quite some time
> evaluating different options!
> 
> Robert
> 
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