Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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...
>
> Why aren't you using amanda or something else that uses
> tar as the means by which you do a backup?
I am not sure if you know Amanda well enough...
Amanda either uses ufsdump or GNU tar.
ufsdump is unable to backup ZFS and GNU tar is extremely unreliable.
In addition, GNU tar is unable to archive more than the historical
UNIX meta data of a file.
Last night, I received a mail from the Amanda people and it may be
that in future Amanda will support star too.
Meanwhile, you cannot really use Amanda to backup ZFS.
Jörg
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