a number of apps support zfs extended attributes, but not many support backup up snapshots in a format that can be *easily* recovered (ie - as a regular snapshot of a filesystem). hopefully this will change in the future ;-)
if you want to backup snapshot too, then perhaps something like: mkfifo /tmp/some_pipe zfs snapshot ....... zfs send -I startsnap endsnap > /tmp/some_pipe then something that is able to backup to tape from a pipe, and manage your tapes, etc - use what you are comfortable with, but not all backup apps are the same.... note - if changing tapes takes too long, the pipe *may* actually time out on the send side if you are not careful... opensolaris also has an ndmp service -> so if your backup app support grabbing data form an ndmp enabled nas, then you may want to look into this - although, I am not sure if this metho will also grab any zvols (I have never tried the ndmp agent to be honest, this suggestion is purely speculative). recovery is a little more tricky for rpool, but other pools are basically the same... Cheers, Darren Mackay http://www.sikkra.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/velitium/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
