On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:46:28PM -0700, Charlie wrote:
> Traditional (amanda). I'm not seeing a way to dump zfs file systems to
> tape without resorting to 'zfs send' being piped through gtar or
> something. Even then, the only thing I could restore was an entire file
> system. (We frequently restore single files for users...)
>
> Perhaps, since zfs isn't limited to one snapshot per FS like fssnap is,
> I should be redesigning everything. It sounds like I should look at
> using many snapshots, and dumping to tape (each file system, somehow)
> less frequently.
That's right. With ZFS, there should never be a need to go to tape to
recover an accidentally deleted file, becuase it's easy[*] to keep lots
of snapshots around.
[*] Well, modulo 6373978 "want to take lots of snapshots quickly ('zfs
snapshot -r')". I'm working on that...
--matt
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