Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: > ufsdump is the problem, not ufsrestore. If you ufsdump an active > file system, there is no guarantee you can ufsrestore it. The only way > to guarantee this is to keep the file system quiesced during the entire > ufsdump. Needless to say, this renders ufsdump useless for backup > when the file system also needs to accommodate writes.
This is why there is a ufs snapshot utility. BTW: If it no already known, star does not yet support ZFS ACLs but it otherwise implements the ufsdump features in a file-system independent way. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss