Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup tool

2010-06-09 Thread Khyron
My inclination, based on what I've read and heard from others, is to say "no". But again, the best way to find out is to write the code. :\ On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:45, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Be

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup tool

2010-06-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Toyama Shunji > > Certainly I feel it is difficult, but is it logically impossible to > write a filter program to do that, with reasonable memory use? Good question. I don't know the answer.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup tool

2010-06-07 Thread Khyron
To answer the question you asked here...the answer is "no". There have been MANY discussions of this in the past. Here's the lng thread I started back in May about backup strategies for ZFS pools and file systems: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2010-March/038678.html But

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup tool

2010-06-07 Thread Toyama Shunji
Thank you David, Thank you Cindy, Certainly I feel it is difficult, but is it logically impossible to write a filter program to do that, with reasonable memory use? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup tool

2010-06-07 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Toyama, You cannot restore an individual file from a snapshot stream like the ufsrestore command. If you have snapshots stored on your system, you might be able to access them from the .zfs/snapshot directory. See below. Thanks, Cindy % rm reallyimportantfile % cd .zfs/snapshot % cd recent-

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup tool

2010-06-07 Thread David Magda
On Mon, June 7, 2010 10:34, Toyama Shunji wrote: > Can I extract one or more specific files from zfs snapshot stream? > Without restoring full file system. > Like ufs based 'restore' tool. No. (Check the archives of zfs-discuss for more details. Send/recv has been discussed at length many times.