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		ilyt on Aug 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zrepl – ZFS replication It's like someone glued together LVM and RAID but on file level instead of block level. So you can make some fancy things like (relatively) cost-free snapshots, and some extra data safety with per-file checksumming. It also uses WAL (similarly to databases) which allows (similiar to databases) replication to remote system.

edmundsauto on Aug 23, 2023 [–]

Got it, that makes sense! Not OP but a followup - what does "replication" mean in this context? Is it mirroring your ZFS volumes in another device?

ilyt on Aug 23, 2023 | [–]

Pretty much, although it's one-directional transfer of a volume or snapshot of one, not bi-directional one

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