> > Personally, I like to start with a fresh "full" image once a month, > and then do daily incrementals for the rest of the month. > > This doesn't buy you anything. ZFS isn't like traditional backups.
If you never send another full, then eventually the delta from the original to the present will become large. Not a problem, you're correct, as long as your destination media is sufficiently large. Unless I am mistaken, I believe, the following is not possible: On the source, create snapshot "1" Send snapshot "1" to destination On the source, create snapshot "2" Send incremental, from "1" to "2" to the destination. On the source, destroy snapshot "1" On the destination, destroy snapshot "1" I think, since snapshot "2" was derived from "1" you can't destroy "1" unless you've already destroyed "2" Am I wrong? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
