It's automated with Ansible, pulling ZFS snapshots from my beefy HL15 rackmount NAS, and it's sipping 8.5W while doing so. More to come, here's the story so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8EIs8s303k
@geerlingguy#sanoid & #syncoid are really neat. At some point I was even using a #raspberryPi 1 as a backup host, no need for a lot of power/bandwidth if you don't deal with terabytes of changes at once :)
It's been griping me for YEARS that #syncoid can only give a progress bar for the CURRENT replication task, not for the entire job (when it involves multiple datasets).
The problem is that it relies on an external program for the progress meter, which means you can only meter the one task at a time.
That's gonna change real soon. We gonna have simultaneous progress bars for the current task, and for the ENTIRE set of tasks:
I realised something important today. Encrypted #ZFS datasets will not automatically be sent encrypted with zfs send. To ensure the destination receives the dataset in encrypted form, you need to include the send option w or --raw for a raw stream. The same applies when using #Syncoid, which I'm now happily relying on for snapshots and scheduled #backups.