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
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