On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, David Magda <dma...@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 17:56, Joe S wrote: > >> Does that sound like a viable backup solution? > > It has been explicitly stated numerous times that the output of 'zfs send' > has no guarantees and it is undocumented. From zfs(1M): > >> The format of the [zfs send] stream is evolving. No backwards >> compatibility is guaranteed. You may not be able to receive your streams on >> future versions of ZFS. > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zfs-1m >
Yes, this would be a huge problem. Thanks for the reference. > If you want to do back ups of your file system use a documented utility > (tar, cpio, pax, zip, etc.). I'm going to try to use Amanda and backup my data (not snapshots). _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
