On Fri, February 5, 2010 12:04, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > It is. The mechanism is quite efficient and reliable. At work we use > it, with incremental streams, to make hourly off-site backups of > over 100 file systems. Works like a charm.
I'd have to disagree; I've been fighting for a year to get zfs send -R to complete (and the corresponding receive) reliably. It failed again last night; when I woke up it appeared to be hung (I left it in case it either unhangs itself, or somebody had a suggestion for data gathering; I posted details this morning). I had a working backup system using rsync, but am trying to switch to zfs send / receive to preserve ACLs since I switched to CIFS for my Windows network file access, which uses ACLs. So I've had few completed backups, and haven't been able to even try to get my incremental system working yet. Maybe updating to build 132 would help, but that means jumping from stable to development -- and half my attempts at that in virtual machines on another system failed to complete the upgrade. A new stable is supposed to be out in March, so sometime in April seems possible ;-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, [email protected]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
