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-----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Lori Alt Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:59 AM To: Ross Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Archiving and Restoring Snapshots I agree and Cindy Swearingen and I are talking to marketing to get this fixed. Thanks to all for bringing this to our attention. lori On 09/03/09 00:55, Ross wrote: > I agree, mailing that to all Sun customers is something I think is likely to turn around and bite you. > > A lot of people are now going to use that to archive their data, and some of them are not going to be happy when months or years down the line they try to restore it and find that the 'zfs receive' just fails, with no hope of recovering their data. > > And they're not going to blame the device that's corrupted a bit, they're going to come here blaming Sun and ZFS. Archiving to a format with such a high risk of loosing everything sounds like incredibly bad advice. Especially when the article actually uses the term "create archives for long-term storage". > > Long term storage doesn't mean "storage that could break with the next upgrade", or "storage that will fail if even a single bit has been corrupted anywhere in the process". Sun really need to decide what they are doing with zfs send/receive because we're getting very mixed messages now. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
