> Are there any plans to have a tool to restore individual files from zfs
> send streams - like ufsrestore? The best advice I've heard so far is thus: On your backup media, create a zpool in a file container. When you "zfs send" don't save the data stream. Instead, feed it directly into "zfs receive" into the zpool inside the file. When you "zpool export" you've got a mountable entire filesystem inside a file. Just like a "zfs send" data stream, except that it's mountable, and already verified. . If you want to restore the whole filesystem, you can. . If you want to restore a single file, you can. . You can rest assured there was no corruption in the zfs data stream, because it was received properly and checksummed on the fly. . If you want, you can use a regular backup tool (tar, star, backup exec, whatever) to send the file container to tape. . If you want, you can do a scrub on the filesystem to ensure it's still free of corruption.
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