Ok, I just setup a Freenas server using mirroring instead of RAIDZ(thanks Mr. Salter for your awesome article!) and I would like to know if there is a recommendation for periodic snapshots in the ZFS ...

In this podcast, we look at snapshots and their role in data protection strategy with Shawn Meyers, field chief technology officer (CTO) at Tintri. Meyers also talks about the limitations of snapshots ...

To sum up, backups are copies, come with an overhead, and are taken relatively infrequently, generally once a day. They provide a copy of the selected datasets from which customers can recover data to ...