[TriLUG] FreeNAS vs DIY

[Igor Partola]

OK, so it sounds like ZFS is pretty much a must. The more research I do the
more I think that I'd be better off with Ubuntu + ZFS for Linux. That's
what I am most familiar with and ZFS seems a lot less scary than BTRFS.

Last question: is it a terrible idea to do backups using rsnapshot onto the
same RAID-Z/zpool as the main data? This way I'd have two subvolumes: one
for the actual online data and one for the daily and weekly snapshots. Or
should I try to figure out some way to set up a second machine with ZFS on
it?

Thanks,
Igor