Justin Stringfellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why aren't you using amanda or something else that uses
> > tar as the means by which you do a backup?
>
> Using something like tar to take a backup forgoes the ability to do things
> like the clever incremental backups that ZFS can achieve though; e.g. only
> backing the few blocks that have changed in a very large file rather than the
> whole file regardless. If 'zfs send' doesn't do something we need to fix it
> rather than avoid it, IMO.
Have a look at star....
Star supports true incremental backups.
Jörg
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