Hi MT!

And which significant differences I see in zfs properties (sorry for
HTML but without it -- the difference is not so evident):

|Good |         
        |Broken |

        | |     
        | |

        |NAME        PROPERTY              VALUE                  SOURCE|       
        |NAME        PROPERTY              VALUE                  SOURCE|

        |main/zones  atime                 on                     default |     
        |main/zones  atime                 off                    local |

        |main/zones  aclmode               discard                default |     
        |main/zones  aclmode               passthrough            local |

        |main/zones  aclinherit            restricted             default |     
        |main/zones  aclinherit            passthrough            local |

        |main/zones  utf8only              off                   -|     
        |main/zones  utf8only              on                     -|

        |main/zones  normalization         none                   -|    
        |main/zones  normalization         formD                 -|

        |main/zones  casesensitivity       sensitive             -|     
        |main/zones  casesensitivity       insensitive           -|

        |main/zones  nbmand                off                    default |     
        |main/zones  nbmand                on                     local |

        ||


1. Atime. Maybe this backup software relies on atime some way? Anyway,
atime for root FS is important.
2. Aclmode+aclinherit. These are for ACLs. Non-defaults are used for
shares, for root FS the default is must.
3. Utf8only+normalization+casesensitivity. These are for file names.
Maybe backup assumes that, ex., .lock and .LOCK are different files
(usually on UNIX and Linux tis is true ;) ). BTW Linux (like UNIX or BSD
or evem MacOS) likes case-sensitivity and "insensitive" is for network
shares for windows-like clients.
4. Nbmand. This is some kind of locking, I don't know details. But I
also think that non-default is not a good idea for linux root.

So, I think that "right column" is not siutable as linux root filesystem
- because of case insensitivity, atime=off and uncommon acls+nbmand.

This is my opinion. And if You want - You definitely can fix these
settings one by one and realize what is the unique cause of backup
creash. It seems so.

-- 
С уважением, Илья Кулагин

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