Paul Kraus wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Philip Brown wrote: >> >>> I've recently started down the road of production use for zfs, and am >>> hitting my head on some paradigm shifts. I'd like to clarify whether my >>> understanding is correct, and/or whether there are better ways of doing >>> things. >>> I have one question for replication, and one question for backups. >>> These questions are all about Solaris 10 production release (U5, I believe) >>> not solarisexpress, etc. >>> >>> >> First, zfs send/recv is not a backup/restore solution. You might be >> happier using >> the available backup/restore solutions in the market. >> > > Is there a ufsdump equivalent for ZFS ? For home use I really don't > want to have to buy a NetBackup license. > >
No, and it is unlikely to happen. To some degree, ufsdump existed because of deficiencies in other copy applications, which have been largely fixed over the past 25+ years. See the ZFS Best Practices Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#ZFS_Backup_.2F_Restore_Recommendations -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
