> I haven't done that particular comparison. (zfs send isn't useful for backup
> - doesn't span tapes, doesn't hold an index of the files.) But I have compared
> it against various varieties of tar for moving data between machines, and
> the performance of 'zfs send' wasn't particularly good - I
Hello Peter,
Sunday, April 20, 2008, 7:47:31 PM, you wrote:
>> How does 'zfs send' performance compare with a traditional incremental
>> backup system?
PT> I haven't done that particular comparison. (zfs send isn't useful for backup
PT> - doesn't span tapes, doesn't hold an index of the files.)
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Peter Tribble wrote:
>>
>> What is the cause of the "struggling"? Does the backup host run short of
>> RAM or CPU? If backups are incremental, is a large portion of time spent
>> determining the changes to be backed up? What is the relative cost of many
>> small files vs la
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Peter Tribble wrote:
> >
> > My experience so far is that anything past a terabyte and 10 million
> files,
> > and any backup software struggles.
> >
>
> What is the cause of the "struggling"? Does
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Peter Tribble wrote:
>> Does anyone here have experience of this with multi-TB filesystems and
>> any of these solutions that they'd be willing to share with me please?
>
> My experience so far is that anything past a terabyte and 10 million files,
> and any backup software s
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Anna Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've just joined this list, and am trying to understand the state of
> play with using free backup solutions for ZFS, specifically on a Sun
> x4500.
...
> Does anyone here have experience of this with multi-TB filesyst
I had a brief look into this too. I'm a solaris newbie, but the best solution
looked to be tar, or something called Star.
Our plan is to use ZFS send/receive to back the data up onto live server
storage. But for tape archives I actually want to use a completely different
filesystem. If somet
Dear All,
I've just joined this list, and am trying to understand the state of
play with using free backup solutions for ZFS, specifically on a Sun
x4500.
The x4500 we have is used as a file store, serving clients using NFS
only.
I'm handling the issue of recovery of accidentally deleted f
