On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Ross <myxi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard, > > Actually, reading your reply has made me realise I was overlooking > something when I talked about tar, star, etc... How do you backup a ZFS > volume? That's something traditional tools can't do. Are snapshots the > only way to create a backup or archive of those? > > Personally I'm quite happy with snapshots - we have a ZFS system at work > that's replicating all of it's data to an offsite ZFS store using snapshots. > Using ZFS as a backup store is something I'm quite happy with, it's just > storing just a snapshot file that makes me nervous. > The correct answer is ndmp. Whether Sun will ever add it to opensolaris is another subject entirely though. --Tim
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