Re: [zfs-discuss] Best choice - file system for system

2011-01-27 Thread Tristram Scott
I don't disagree that zfs is the better choice, but... Seriously though. UFS is dead. It has no advantage over ZFS that I'm aware of. When it comes to dumping and restoring filesystems, there is still no official replacement for the ufsdump and ufsrestore. The discussion has been had

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-07-05 Thread Tristram Scott
At this point, I will repeat my recommendation about using zpool-in-files as a backup (staging) target. Depending where you ost, and how you combine the files, you can achieve these scenarios without clunkery, and with all the benefits a zpool provides. This is another good scheme. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-29 Thread Tristram Scott
would be nice if i could pipe the zfs send stream to a split and then send of those splitted stream over the network to a remote system. it would help sending it over to remote system quicker. can your tool do that? something like this s | - | j -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-29 Thread Tristram Scott
if, for example, the network pipe is bigger then one unsplitted stream of zfs send | zfs recv then splitting it to multiple streams should optimize the network bandwidth, shouldn't it ? Well, I guess so. But I wonder, what is the bottle neck here. If it is the rate at which zfs send

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-29 Thread Tristram Scott
evik wrote: Reading this list for a while made it clear that zfs send is not a backup solution, it can be used for cloning the filesystem to a backup array if you are consuming the stream with zfs receive so you get notified immediately about errors. Even one bitflip will render the stream

[zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-28 Thread Tristram Scott
For quite some time I have been using zfs send -R fsn...@snapname | dd of=/dev/rmt/1ln to make a tape backup of my zfs file system. A few weeks back the size of the file system grew to larger than would fit on a single DAT72 tape, and I once again searched for a simple solution to allow

Re: [zfs-discuss] Announce: zfsdump

2010-06-28 Thread Tristram Scott
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