> For home use I am making very successful use of zfs incremental send > and receive. A script decides which filesystems to backup (based > on a user property retrieved by zfs get) and snapshots the filesystem; > it then looks for the last snapshot that the pool I'm backing > up and the pool I'm backing up to have in common, and > does a zfs send -i | zfs reveive over than. Backups are pretty > quick since there is not huge amount of churn in the filesystems, > and on my backup disks I have browsable access to snapshot of > my data from every backup I have run.
As far as I know zfs send/receive is still not reliable unless they are the same version at both ends. This is a stupid decision on the part of Sun as far as I am concerned, so I hope that I'm wrong and they've realised the error of their way. > Gavin Julian -- Julian King Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
