[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/14/2008 04:48:47 PM: > > > Carson Gaspar wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Bill Shannon wrote: > > > What's the best way to backup a zfs filesystem to tape, where the size > of the filesystem is larger than what can fit on a single tape? > ufsdump handles this quite nicely. Is there a similar backup program > for zfs? Or a general tape management program that can take data from > > Previously it was suggested on this list to use a special version of > tar called 'star' (ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star). > > > Suggested by the rather biased (and extremely opinionated) author of > 'star'. Who, by the way, never out-and-out admitted that star does _not_ > support ZFS ACLs (which it doesn't). > > Sadly I don't now of any non-commercial backup solution for ZFS that > supports ACLs. > > That is simply not true. Legato (EMC) Networker 7.4 does a perfect > job of capturing the ZFS ACL's Just to make sure, I just performed > a test recover of a directory where we use a complicated set of NFS4 > style ACL's, and they were preserved exactly.
Netbackup 6.5 does too. > Even rsync doesn't support them, due to Sun's choice to > use their own unique ACL API. > > I commend Sun's choice of NFS v4 ACLs. This is the only way to > ensure CIFS compatibility, and it is the way the industry will be moving. Seconded, although I regret that there was not more of a push to standardize the interfaces with other vendors. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
