-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/28/2010 10:30 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tristram Scott >> >> If you would like to try it out, download the package from: >> http://www.quantmodels.co.uk/zfsdump/ > > I haven't tried this yet, but thank you very much! > > Other people have pointed out bacula is able to handle multiple tapes, and > individual file restores. However, the disadvantage of > bacula/tar/cpio/rsync etc is that they all have to walk the entire > filesystem searching for things that have changed.
A compromise here might be to feed those tools the output from the new ZFS diff command (which 'diffs' 2 snapshots.) when it arrives. That might get somethign close to "the best of both worlds". -Kyle > > The advantage of "zfs send" (assuming incremental backups) is that it > already knows what's changed, and it can generate a continuous datastream > almost instantly. Something like 1-2 orders of magnitude faster per > incremental backup. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMKgO2AAoJEEADRM+bKN5wqF0IAJMN1+41+WSEy8qR4QrxFkPc VgHv976VjY/mf2EujeSLQOwHEzx4bEfAnA7DjehQqim0YXSvo5jIDXwEZYkoCBaU TsD6RQucks23fJUhsf0XKZNXZkpe7dqxGFXbOVd8so12LoYaB4/ZfZMdaQrhOHX8 CwyjS22YCvgxYTEUXs52RSwBg8Qw/sxjMYNa2D/iJPgZ8qtezNiiJD3bb8b30TRy 0YFHnAaC6V4/iyDvh+NpixPflaLMFmCkSh55zK1rBVHNJ7npUpZEFAKUZOXq/q38 bttGomj5gJSaoI8u8NGqADuh4Bk7JbkqKncXGJ6gxwW0pyIEplI3tS6yCTHgP/w= =Hhu9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
