Good question. Zmanda seems to be a popular open source solution with commercial licenses and support available. We try to keep the Best Practices Guide up to date on this topic: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Using_ZFS_With_Enterprise_Backup_Solutions
Additions or corrections are greatly appreciated. -- richard On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Julian Regel wrote: > Hi > > We have a number of customers (~150) that have a single Sun server with > directly attached storage and directly attached tape drive/library. These > servers are currently running UFS, but we are looking at deploying ZFS in > future builds. > > At present, we backup the server to the local tape drive using ufsdump, but > there appears to be no equivalent for ZFS. Is anyone aware why Sun have never > provided a zfsdump/zfsrestore for this sort of configuration? > > Can anyone advise the best way to backup a ZFS-based server to a locally > attached tape drive? It is possible that the filesystems to backup are bigger > than a single tape, so multiple volume support is a must. > > I thought about doing a "zfs send tank/f...@monday > /dev/rmt/0" but this > won't manage multiple tapes. Also, I'm not sure if this contains all the > metadata required to perform a bare metal restore. > > Any help much appreciated! > > Thanks > > JR > > _______________________________________________ > 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
