Niels, I do this all the time, to a USB connected external drive. And I have managed to restore a snapshot too :-) I don't see why you could mount an NFS mount from the service where you want to backup too. I wonder if windows does something bad to the file, is it larger then 2 Gb?
..Remco Niels Van Hee wrote: > Hi Remco, > > isn't the ssh example used in a context where you immediately receive the > stream (on another solaris system)? What I'm trying to do is storing a > snapshot on another system or media (tape, dvd,...) and restoring it later. > I know zfs send and receive are not ideal as a backup solution, but I would > have thought that remotely storing snapshots wouldn't have been a problem. > > Regards, > Niels _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
