[zfs-discuss] Excuses; I did indeed overlook the obvious

2006-08-12 Thread Peter Looyenga
Yes, before the flames come in I finally realize where I went wrong last night. Mistook the discussion lists as a mere forum [i]and[/i] also assumed that by participating with a new discussion I could automaticly participate in full. I'll keep that in mind for a possible next time but for now I

[zfs-discuss] Re: Unreliable ZFS backups or....

2006-08-12 Thread Peter Looyenga
For reasons totally unknown to me (perhaps I missed some explenation somewhere, its possible) there seems to be forming a discussion through e-mail instead of these forums. I find this rather peculiar to be honost since I didn't use a webforum to be drawn into a mailinglist discussion. Especiall

[zfs-discuss] Unreliable ZFS backups or....

2006-08-11 Thread Peter Looyenga
I looked into backing up ZFS and quite honostly I can't say I am convinced about its usefullness here when compared to the traditional ufsdump/restore. While snapshots are nice they can never substitute offline backups. And although you can keep quite some snapshots lying about it will consume