Mike Gerdts <mger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > another server, where the data is immediately fed through "zfs receive" then
> > it's an entirely viable backup technique.
>
> Richard Elling made an interesting observation that suggests that
> storing a zfs send data stream on tape is a quite reasonable thing to
> do. Richard's background makes me trust his analysis of this much
> more than I trust the typical person that says that zfs send output is
> poison.
If it is on tape you can restore the whole filesystem if you have a new empty
one
to restore to but you cannot do all the typical usages of backups.
Jörg
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