On Jan 25, 2010, at 18:28, Gregory Durham wrote:
One option I have seen is zfs send zfs_s...@1 > /some_dir/
some_file_name. Then I can back this up to tape. This seems easy as
I already have a created a script that does just this but I am
worried that this is not the best or most secure way to do this.
Does anyone have a better solution?
We've been talking about this for the last week and a half. :)
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2010-January/thread.html#35929
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=121797
(They're the same thread, just different interfaces.)
I was thinking about then gzip'ing this but that would take an
enormous amount of time...
If you have a decent amount of CPU, you can parallelize compression:
http://www.zlib.net/pigz/
http://blogs.sun.com/timc/entry/tamp_a_lightweight_multi_threaded
The LZO algorithm (as used in 7zip) is supposed to be better that gzip
in many benchmarks, and supposedly is very parallel.
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