On 29 May 2008, at 15:51, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >> I very strongly disagree. The closest ZFS equivalent to ufsdump is >> 'zfs >> send'. 'zfs send' like ufsdump has initmiate awareness of the the >> actual on disk layout and is an integrated part of the filesystem >> implementation. >> >> star is a userland archiver. >> > > The man page for zfs states the following for send: > > The format of the stream is evolving. No backwards compati- > bility is guaranteed. You may not be able to receive your > streams on future versions of ZFS. > > I think this should be taken into account when considering 'zfs send' > for backup purposes...
Presumably, if one is backing up to another disk, one could zfs receive to a pool on that disk. That way you get simple file-based access, full history (although it could be collapsed by deleting older snapshots as necessary), and no worries about stream format changes. Jonathan _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
