On 03/31/16 13:21, Lloyd Brown wrote:
> On 03/31/2016 11:07 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> But if the NAS supports iSCSI-target mode, export the entire shared
>> volume from the NAS as a single iSCSI target to the backup server, and
>> back up the NAS all at once over iSCSI without having to worry about
>> mounting and unmounting individual homedir shares or all of the
>> headaches that come with trying to back up over NFS.
> 
> Ah, I do see what you mean.  Unfortunately, its not quite as simple as that.
> 
> First, each user directory is an individual share or volume in ZFS
> parlance.  They're thin-provisioned volumes, on top of a storage pool. 
> Any export I do, be it NFS, iSCSI, CIFS, etc., would be done at that
> level, and not above.  There is no way to do a system-wide export of any
> kind, over any protocol.

Aaaaaah, I see.  I didn't realize you were setting up your ZFS shares
that way.


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