On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Blake <blake.ir...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I thinks that's legitimate so long as you don't change ZFS versions.
>
> Personally, I'm more comfortable doing a 'zfs send | zfs recv' than I
> am storing the send stream itself.  The problem I have with the stream
> is that I may not be able to receive it in a future version of ZFS,
> while I'm pretty sure that I can upgrade an actual pool/fs pretty
> easily.
>

Worse case keep a copy of the install iso with your backed up steams and you
can restore into a virtual machine.

I've got backup floppies from 10 years ago which are pretty much useless.
VMs opens up the choices.

Nicholas
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