[Amanda-users] amanda dump error

2009-06-24 Thread ay4you
Hi i am getting a weird error from my amdump it has been working fine up until last night and i got an error These dumps were to tape DailySet11-014. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet11-016. FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: samba.ti.office /home/ChicRetreats lev 0 FAILED [disk

best way to backup a local ZFS

2009-06-24 Thread Andreas Kuntzagk
Hi, I want to backup a local ZFS filesystem (or parts of it) Since this is on a Sun X4500 with 34TB space, copying this to a holding disk seems not feasible. So I would disable the holding disk, make an zfs snapshot before backup, backup the snapshot and delete it. Is that the right way (tm)