> A cleanly written filesystem provides clean and abstract interfaces to do > anything you like with the filesystem, it's content and metadata. In such an > environment, there is no need for a utility that knows the disk layout (like > ufsdump does).
I'd like to take a backup of a live filesystem without modifying the last accessed time. Can star do this? Cos otherwise it has a serious failing as far as I am concerned. I don't blame star for this, but I observe that (ufs)dump can do this. In case you are wondering why I would care - it is because we moderately regularly have to deal with hacking incidents. And there is nothing more fustrating than having evidence wiped by a backup solution. Especially if this means that we can't be sure how far back to go in the backups to get a guaranteed clean copy. For _my_ purposes I'd be happy with zfs send/receive, if only it was guaranteed to be compatible between versions. I agree that the inability to extract single files is an irritation - I am not sure why this is anything more than an implementation detail, but I haven't gone into it in depth. > J?rg 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
