> To put the cat amongst the pigeons here, there were those > within Sun that tried to tell the ZFS team that a backup > program such as zfsdump was necessary but we got told > that amanda and other tools were what people used these > days (in corporate accounts) and therefore zfsdump and > zfsrestore wasn't necessary...
Well, to put the fox in with the hens as a reply, there are those of us that have used ufsdump for years and with a SDLT we can get stunning throughput. I can boot a box with a Solaris CDROM and restore perfectly and I don't need to install anything. Right onto a bare disk. No software needed other than a Solaris 8 CDROM. I guess I had this unspoken and unwritten expectation that with any given native filesystem in Solaris I could always expect that in a disaster I would be able to restore from tape with nothing other than a CD in my hand and a fresh disk. > Why aren't you using amanda or something else that uses > tar as the means by which you do a backup? Well gee, now I have to look at it. With a server in a commercial account I would use Networker or Netbackup and a robotic tape library. At home or in a small implementaion ( Blastwave ) I will use ufsdump and not much else. It works real well. Has for years. I guess I have to now go back to my own drawing board and ask a few questions. In the meanwhile I am kind of stuck and had better look at Bacula or Amanda or some other thing that ends with "ah" in three syllables. Dennis _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
