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Back in 2013 I built a ZFS box on Open Indiana 151a with napp-it. I'm currently running version oi_151a8. It's been incredibly stable and besides the lack of updates, Open Indiana has been a great OS. I use linux at work quite a bit, so I'm leaning towards ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, but Napp-it isn't supported on those OS's and it makes ZFS so easy to manage. I've also looked at Omni-OS, but it looks like it's no longer getting updates either.

What is everyone using now?

I haven't even gotten the part where CrashPlan is dropping home support, and I need a new system to backup to my parents house.
 
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At work and home am using linux. I have 100TB+ spread out over 4 systems. With that said I manage my storage from the shell directly with no UI to help.
 
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At work and home am using linux. I have 100TB+ spread out over 4 systems. With that said I manage my storage from the shell directly with no UI to help.
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Wow, if you are using it at home and work, it must be pretty stable. With OpenIndiana, my windows shares have previous versions enabled. It uses the snapshots in ZFS and I am able to restore files from within windows. I've been able to restore deleted or modified files relatively easy that way. Does ZFS on Linux retain this functionality?
 
I have the snapshot folder mounted and exposed to windows users via a samba share. They can retrieve files from the snapshots of their public and private folders for any day in the last year.
 
The former commercial OmniOS from OmniTi is now OmniOS community edition.
Like in the past it comes with a stable, a long term stable and a commercial support option.
Current stable from may 2018 is 151026 and includes a lot of unique features like LX zones and vdev remove

https://omniosce.org/
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151026/doc/ReleaseNotes.md

btw
Current OpenIndiana is 2018.04, no problem with updates
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2018.04+Release+notes

ZFS snaps as Windows previous versions as a zero config option is a unique feature of the in ZFS embedded Solarish kernelbased SMB server (Nexenta, OmniOS, OpenIndiana, SmartOS or a genuine ZFS on Solaris).
 
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I have the snapshot folder mounted and exposed to windows users via a samba share. They can retrieve files from the snapshots of their public and private folders for any day in the last year.
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Nice, that is good to know.
 
It depends

OpenIndiana is a general use server OS with a desktop option, just like its predecessor OpenSolaris with a repository that contains a lot of apps, even desktop ones. It is based on ongoing pure Illumos (the common development roof of all OpenSource Opensolaris derived systems).

OmniOS is a very minimalistic OpenSource server OS for production grade storage. The OS and the repository is stripped down to the use case FC/iSCSI/NFS/SMB/VM server to be as stable as possible. Every OmniOS (bloody, stable and long term stable) comes with its own repository (a freeze of Illumos with parts of the SmartOS fork for LX/bhyve virtualisation) with backports of critical bugfixes. A stable comes every 6 months, a long term stable every two years. For production use you can add a support contract with the developers (two firms in Europe with the infrastructure in Swiss/ETH Zürich)

To extend both repositories for other applications, you can use pkgsrc from SmartOS/Joyent
https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/

Software for Illumos based systems, see https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/
 
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Thanks for the help everyone! I was able to do a zfs send | receive to move all the data to the new pool. I tried to upgrade Open Indiana to the latest hipster version but it failed. So I just did a fresh install and imported the ZFS pools.

I'm going to take the old 3tb mirror, and move it to my parents house. Then do zfs send | receive over ssh for offsite backup. This will be my crash plan replacement. Also, one of my 3tb drives is from 2010, and I bought it new, so I've been running ZFS for longer than I originally thought!
 
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