on Wed Oct 15 2008, Miles Nordin <carton-AT-Ivy.NET> wrote: >>>>>> "s" == Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > s> the use of zfs > s> clones/snapshots encompasses the entire zfs filesystem > > I use one ZFS filesystem per VDI file. It might be better to use > vmdk's and zvol's, but right now that's not what I do. > > I also often copy ExPee VDI's onto physical hardware using xxcopy, the > MS iSCSI initiator, and FreeNAS, so I use the VDI's in ZFS act as > bootable-machine backups for this ghetto-ghosting scheme. There is > this retarded dance you have to do with WPA.DBL---write me if you ever > need to do this. > > s> virtualbox clone > > the ZFS snapshot/clone commands are a lot faster and less > mistake-prone than the virtualbox features, and they support a full > clone tree rather than just a linear progression of snapshots.
I was going to do the same thing... but I've been wondering how to deal with backups to my Amazon s3 storage area. Does zfs send avoid duplicating common data in clones and snapshots? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
