Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "zfs send" as backup is probably not generally acceptable: you can't
> expect to extract a single file out of it (at least not out of an
> incremental zfs send), but that's certainly done routinely with ufsdump,
> tar, cpio, ...
Then an incremental star backup looks like the right solution.
The incremental is still a valid tar archive and you may extract any single
file using any recent tar implementation. Only if you like to use the
incremental features (that allow you to deal with renamed or removed files),
you need star.
Jörg
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