> > I'll say it again: neither 'zfs send' or (s)tar is an enterprise (or > > even home) backup system on their own one or both can be components > of > > the full solution.
I would be pretty comfortable with a solution thusly designed: #1 A small number of external disks, "zfs send" onto the disks and rotate offsite. Then, you're satisfying the ability to restore individual files, but you're not satisfying the archivability, longevity of tapes. #2 Also, "zfs send" onto tapes. So if ever you needed something older than your removable disks, it's someplace reliable, just not readily accessible if you only want a subset of files. > I'm in the fortunate position of having my backups less than the size > of a > large single drive; so I'm rotating three backup drives, and intend to It's of course convenient if your backup fits entirely inside a single removable disk, but that's not a requirement. You could always use removable stripesets, or raidz, or whatever you wanted. For example, you could build a raidz removable volume out of 5 removable disks if you wanted. Just be sure you attach all 5 disks before you "zpool import" _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
