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> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie > Sent: 25 April 2008 16:00 > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: Amanda and ZFS > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:32:27PM +0100, Anthony Worrall wrote: > > Hi > > > > unfortunately zfsdump, or "zfs send" as it is now, does not relate to > > ufsdump in any way :-( > > > > > [ big snip ] > > > > One of the properties of zfs is that in encourages the use of a > > filesystem for a logical set of files, i.e. user home directory, > > software package etc. > > This means that every time you create a new filesystem you need to > > create a new DLE for amanda. In fact creating the amanda DLE takes > > longer than creating the zfs filesystem. > > > > You can not just use tar to dump multiple zfs filestems because amamda > > tells tar not to cross filesystem boundaries. > > > > You could probably write a wrapper to tar to remove --one-file-system > > option to get around this limitation. > > Another way would be to use include directives. For example, if the > zfs pool was /pool and had file systems of a, b,c, and d, you could > set up multiple DLEs that were rooted at /pool (different tag names) > and had include directives of "include ./a ./c" and another with > "include ./b ./d" While traversing each of the included starting > points (directories), tar would never cross a file system boundary. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 > Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)