Well I guess I am glad I am not the only one. Thanks for the heads up! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, David Magda <dma...@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
> 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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