On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:46:28PM -0700, Charlie wrote: > Eric Schrock wrote: > > > Using traditional tools or ZFS send/receive? > > 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...)
Remember, ZFS is a fully POSIX-compliant filesystem. Any backup program that uses system calls to do its work will still function properly. Why would you believe that your backup program doesn't work with ZFS? Have you actually tried it? If it doesn't work, that's a big bug for us. > 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 definitely an option. You can also tell your backup program to not stop at filesystem boundaries so you can do entire trees of your namespace at once. --Bill _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
