Support for ZFS and BTRFS file system backup
I wish to submit a vote for both the ZFS and BTRFS filesystem support in Acronis Cyber Protect products.
These filesystems are popular and well supported on many NAS devices. Having the ability to backup these devices would add another layer of protection for user data that does not exist today. Additionally, the backup of the underlying OS of these devices should be considered critical user data and protected by Acronis products.
Hi,
On a personal level that product would be Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office or its successor. Since these filesystems are Unix derivatives I am not certain they are used that much in the enterprise market even though I believe there is likely a need for them.
Copy On Write (COW) filesystems are becoming more common with XFS now being used in lieu of BTRFS in some cases. The point is that for devices that use these filesystems there is not a backup solution in the market place that I am aware of.
Having said that, in the case of ZFS there is an open source solution that looks promising. See the link here
For an in-depth look at ZFS and COW advantages look here
You might pass these links along as they help in understanding.
Enchantech wrote:Hi,
On a personal level that product would be Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office or its successor. Since these filesystems are Unix derivatives I am not certain they are used that much in the enterprise market even though I believe there is likely a need for them.
Copy On Write (COW) filesystems are becoming more common with XFS now being used in lieu of BTRFS in some cases. The point is that for devices that use these filesystems there is not a backup solution in the market place that I am aware of.
Having said that, in the case of ZFS there is an open source solution that looks promising. See the link here
For an in-depth look at ZFS and COW advantages look here
You might pass these links along as they help in understanding.
Hello, I have checked and there aren't any plans to introduce the support of those file systems in the Cyber Protect Home office. There are for Cyber Protect Cloud and business products but not for consumers so far.
Thanks in advance!
Responding to ZFS specifically - IMO this request doesn't make any sense (given what I know about ACPHO).
The Acronis software/services/agents run on Windows. Windows can't read ZFS natively, so Acronis would presumably have to create their own drivers/interpreters for ZFS datasets, zvols, snapshots, etc to read the data, and of course this is likely going to be done over a network connection, involving a whole new set of complexities.
After all, the only operating systems I've seen ZFS ran are BSD or Linux. Windows/Mac (what ACPHO supports) don't read ZFS natively.
If we lived in a world where this was trivial, then by all means - but the engineering ask here is enormous. I think the more "sane" approach is for home users to SMB/iSCSI mount their data like they would normally and back it up via the normal ACPHO UI. This way, Acronis is "blind" to ZFS.