Hummingboard i2eX offsite ZFS backup

[CurlyMo]

For those interested to what we can use XBian for. For the past three months i'm using XBian on my Hummingboard i2eX as an offsite ZFS backup solution.

I've installed the latest XBian kernel + ZFS modules and userland tools provided by XBian. Attached an external USB2 hard drive and use zfs send/receive to sync all my data over ssh each night. The only thing taking a long time are the scrubs which i run each month.

Code:

root@xbian ~ # zpool status
  pool: backup
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
        still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
        the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
        the features. See zpool-features(5) for details.
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 55h16m with 0 errors on Tue Feb  3 10:16:29 2015

Code:

root@xbian ~ # zfs list backup
NAME     USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
backup   807G   244G   405M  /backup

With occasional reboots after applying upgrades i still get a nice stable uptime:

Code:

root@xbian ~ # uptime
10:04:34 up 35 days, 20:39,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.28, 0.34

And because this is a small form factor computer with hardly any power consumption, it easy to setup at a family member.