> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I seem to have this unwritten expectation that with ZFS I would get >> everything that I always had with UFS and SVM without losing a feature. >> The >> ufsbackup and ufsrestore command will both do a complete dump of a UFS >> filesystem plus incrementals and all the metadata also. > > Really ? ufsdump doesn't record the SVM layout, it doesn't record > the options you set in /etc/vfstab or /etc/dfs/dfstab. So personally I > don't think it does store all the metadata. >
I think you are picking the wrong nits there. What I mean is that I could get redundency and I could extend my filesystem practically on the fly and ufsdump would dump the UFS data and all metadata like dates and security info and ACL's. That was what I was thinking. >> I lose that with ZFS as the backup technology does not exist yet to backup >> all the metadata also. >> >> Perhaps we need to craft a zfsbackup and zfsrestore command ? > > Or fix the existing send/recv to pass the options and be able to be told > how to manage tapes in the simple way that ufsdump can. > bingo yes .. thats all I was thinking. Dennis _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
