Carson Gaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Bill Shannon wrote: > > > >> What's the best way to backup a zfs filesystem to tape, where the size > >> of the filesystem is larger than what can fit on a single tape? > >> ufsdump handles this quite nicely. Is there a similar backup program > >> for zfs? Or a general tape management program that can take data from > > > > Previously it was suggested on this list to use a special version of > > tar called 'star' (ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star). > > Suggested by the rather biased (and extremely opinionated) author of > 'star'. Who, by the way, never out-and-out admitted that star does _not_ > support ZFS ACLs (which it doesn't). > > Sadly I don't now of any non-commercial backup solution for ZFS that > supports ACLs. Even rsync doesn't support them, due to Sun's choice to > use their own unique ACL API.
Well, I believe that the ZFS ACLs are a secondary problem. star supports ACLs already and the problem was that at the time when I was ready to add ZFS ACLs, the ACL support library on Solaris was not useful for star. Now I am waiting for the star integration before I add support for ZFS ACLs. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss