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by stubish 2029 days ago
https://zfs.rent/ is very interesting.

I also recall someone working years ago on a way to push snapshots to S3 or similar, but I never heard if that idea got off the ground (downside is of course the snapshots need to be recovered before they can be mounted, but the dollar cost would be rock bottom).

What would be more interesting is a backup application for Desktop Linux that assumes a ZFS root; all the problems that plague Desktop applications (that seem to keep them in eternal beta or wither away) disappear. It needs to switch on and push snapshots. It needs allow the remote file system to be mounted (to browse the snapshots for selective recovery). It needs a a disaster recovery process to recover an entire system from a remote snapshot.

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> I also recall someone working years ago on a way to push snapshots to S3

You can pipe zfs send to gof3r.