On Feb 27, 2009, at 20:02, Richard Elling wrote:
It wouldn't help. zfs send is a data stream which contains parts of
files,
not files (in the usual sense), so there is no real way to take a send
stream and extract a file, other than by doing a receive.
If you create a non-incremental stream of a snapshot, doesn't it
contain all the information necessary to recreate the file system up
to the point the snapshot was created? Now take that stream and drop
it onto a tape (real or VTL) and you would potentially have a back up
(a la ufsdump).
At the risk of repeating the Best Practices Guide (again):
The zfs send and receive commands do not provide an enterprise-level
backup solution.
Yes, in its current state; hopefully that will change some point in
the future (which is what we're talking about with GSoC--the potential
to change the status quo).
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