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
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