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On 18.03.2010 18:21, Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> As to your two questions above, I'll try to answer them from my limited
>> understanding of the issue.
>>
>> The format: Isn't fault tolerant. In the least. One single bit wrong and
>> the entire stream is invalid. A FEC wrapper would fix this.
>
> I've logged CR# "6936195 ZFS send stream while checksumed isn't fault
> tollerant" to keep track of that.
>
>> The utility: Can't handle streams being split (in case of streams being
>> larger that a single backup media).
>
> I think it should be possible to store the 'zfs send' stream via NDMP
> and let NDMP deal with the tape splitting. Though that may need
> additional software that isn't free (or cheap) to drive the parts of
> NDMP that are in Solaris. I don't know enough about NDMP to be sure but
> I think that should be possible.
>
And here I was thinking that the NDMP stack basically was tapedev and/or
autoloader device via network? (i.e. not a backup utility at all but a
method for the software managing the backup to attach the devices)
//Svein
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