Robert Milkowski wrote:

Hello Jonathan,


Friday, March 14, 2008, 9:48:47 PM, you wrote:


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Carson Gaspar 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 A


That is simply not true. Legato (EMC) Networker 7.4 does a perfect job of capturing the ZFS ACL's Just to make sure, I just performed a test recover of a directory where we use a complicated set of NFS4 style ACL's, and they were preserved exactly.




If you look closely you'll see he wrote "non-comercial backup solution". Unless I miss something Legate and Netbackup (another poster) are commercial.


Right you are.  I read his post wrong.

Networker and NetBackup are very pricey commercial packages.

Thanks

Jon
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