Hello Nicolas, Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 10:12:17 PM, you wrote:
NW> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:47:55PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Maybe with a definition of what a "backup" is and then some way to >> achieve it. As far as I know the only real backup is one that can be >> tossed into a vault and locked away for seven years. Or any arbitrary >> amount of time within in reason. Like a decade or a century. But >> perhaps a backup today will have as much meaning as papertape over >> time. >> >> Can we discuss this with a few objectives ? Like define "backup" and >> then describe mechanisms that may achieve one? Or a really big >> question that I guess I have to ask, do we even care anymore? NW> As far as ZFS is concerned any discussion of how you'll read today's NW> media a decade into the future is completely OT :) NW> "zfs send" as backup is probably not generally acceptable: you can't NW> expect to extract a single file out of it (at least not out of an NW> incremental zfs send), but that's certainly done routinely with ufsdump, NW> tar, cpio, ... Depends where you 'zfs send' those data and what you do on the other side. If you just zfs send <---remote host---> zfs recv and then also make snapshots you have actually very good backup in many aspects much better than using tapes. The only real drawback is management (custom zfs send|recv scripts compared to Legato, Tivolli, ...). -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
