[zfs-discuss] Help needed backing ZFS to tape

2010-01-11 Thread Julian Regel
Hi We have a number of customers (~150) that have a single Sun server with directly attached storage and directly attached tape drive/library. These servers are currently running UFS, but we are looking at deploying ZFS in future builds. At present, we backup the server to the local tape

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed backing ZFS to tape

2010-01-11 Thread Richard Elling
Good question. Zmanda seems to be a popular open source solution with commercial licenses and support available. We try to keep the Best Practices Guide up to date on this topic: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Using_ZFS_With_Enterprise_Backup_Solutions