Haiou Fu (Kevin) wrote:
> I wonder if there are any equivalent commands in zfs to dump all its 
> associated snapshots at maximum efficiency (only the changed data blocks 
> among all snapshots)?   I know you can just "zfs send" all snapshots but each 
> one is like a full dump and if you use "zfs send -i" it is hard to maintain 
> the relationship of the snapshots.
>
> In NetApp filer,  I can do "snapmirror store /vol/vol01 ..."  then everything 
> in /vol/vol01 and all of its snapshots will be mirrored to destination, and 
> it is block level which means only the changes in snapshots are sent out.
>
> So I wonder if there is an equivalent for ZFS to do similar things:
> For example:   given one zfs:  diskpool/myzfs,  it has n snapshots:
>          diskpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED], diskpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED],......  
> diskpool/[EMAIL PROTECTED],
> and if you just do "zfs < magic subcommands> diskpool/myzfs ..." and it will 
> dump myzfs and all its n snapshots out at maximum efficiency (only changed 
> data in snapshots) ?
>
> Any hints/helps are aprreciated!
>   

zfs send -I
 -- richard

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