On August 11, 2006 5:25:11 PM -0700 Peter Looyenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I looked into backing up ZFS and quite honostly I can't say I am convinced about its usefullness here when compared to the traditional ufsdump/restore. While snapshots are nice they can never substitute offline backups.
It doesn't seem to me that they are meant to.
However, while you can make one using 'zfs send' it somewhat worries me that the only way to perform a restore is by restoring the entire filesystem (/snapshot). I somewhat shudder at the thought of having to restore /export/home this way to retrieve but a single file/directory.
You can mitigate this by creating more granular filesystems, e.g. a filesystem per user homedir. This has other advantages like per-user quotas. -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
