Hi everyone, I appreciate the discussion on the practicality of archiving ZFS sends, but right now I don't know of any other options. I'm a home user, so Enterprise-level solutions aren't available and as far as I know, tar, cpio, etc. don't capture ACL's and other low-level filesystem attributes. Plus, they are all susceptible to corruption while in storage, making recovery no more likely than with a zfs send.
The checksumming capability is a key factor to me. I would rather not be able to restore the data than to unknowingly restore bad data. This is the biggest reason I started using ZFS to start with. Too many cases of "invisible" file corruption. Admittedly, it would be nicer if "zfs recv" would flag individual files with checksum problems rather than completely failing the restore. What I need is a complete snapshot of the filesystem (ie. ufsdump) and, correct me if I'm wrong, but zfs send/recv is the closest (only) thing we have. And I need to be able to break up this complete snapshot into pieces small enough to fit onto a DVD-DL. So far, using ZFS send/recv works great as long as the files aren't split. I have seen suggestions on using something like 7z (?) instead of "split" as an option. Does anyone else have any other ideas on how to successfully break up a send file and join it back together? Thanks again, Michael -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
