Bill Moore wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:46:28PM -0700, Charlie wrote: >> Eric Schrock wrote: >>>> Using traditional tools or ZFS send/receive? >> Traditional (amanda). I'm not seeing a way to dump zfs file systems to >> tape without resorting to 'zfs send' being piped through gtar or >> something. Even then, the only thing I could restore was an entire file >> system. (We frequently restore single files for users...) > > Remember, ZFS is a fully POSIX-compliant filesystem. Any backup program > that uses system calls to do its work will still function properly. Why > would you believe that your backup program doesn't work with ZFS? Have > you actually tried it? If it doesn't work, that's a big bug for us.
Of course, using system calls isn't an issue. Most backup systems funtion at a higher level than read() however :) I was thinking about amanda specifically, and I'd need zfsdump to do that. The result is thus: If I want incrementals, I must tell amanda to use tar. Using 'dump' is preferred for many reasons. And 'zfs send' is neat, but only mildly useful. -Charlie This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
