Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv reliability

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Gregory J. Benscoter wrote: > I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If this > occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit flop occurred > in be the only degraded file? Lastly how does the reliability of this plan > compa

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv reliability

2010-05-29 Thread Richard Elling
On May 28, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010, Gregory J. Benscoter wrote: >> I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If this >> occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit flop occurred >> in be the only degraded file? Lastly

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv reliability

2010-05-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Gregory J. Benscoter > > After looking through the archives I haven’t been able to assess the > reliability of a backup procedure which employs zfs send and recv. If there's data corruption in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv reliability

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Elling
On May 28, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn writes: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Gregory J. Benscoter wrote: >>> >>> I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If >>> this occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit >>> flop occurred

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv reliability

2010-05-28 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
Bob Friesenhahn writes: > On Fri, 28 May 2010, Gregory J. Benscoter wrote: >> >> I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If >> this occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit >> flop occurred in be the only degraded file? Lastly how does the >> relia

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv reliability

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Gregory J. Benscoter wrote: I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If this occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit flop occurred in be the only degraded file? Lastly how does the reliability of this plan compare to more tradi

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/recv reliability

2010-05-28 Thread Gregory J. Benscoter
After looking through the archives I haven't been able to assess the reliability of a backup procedure which employs zfs send and recv. Currently I'm attempting to create a script that will allow me to write a zfs stream to a tape via tar like below. # zfs send -R p...@something