On 09/06/11 1:33 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: >> 2011-06-09 18:52, Paul Kraus пишет: >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Walker<kall...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> New to ZFS, I made a critical error when migrating data and >>>> configuring zpools according to needs - I stored a snapshot stream to >>>> a file using "zfs send -R [filesystem]@[snapshot]>[stream_file]". >>> >>> Why is this a critical error, I thought you were supposed to be >>> able to save the output from zfs send to a file (just as with tar or >>> ufsdump you can save the output to a file or a stream) ? >>> Was the cause of the checksum mismatch just that the stream data >>> was stored as a file ? That does not seem right to me. >>> >> As recently mentioned on the list (regarding tape backups, I believe) >> the zfs send stream format was not intended for long-term storage. > > Only due to possible changes in the format. > >> If some bits in the saved file flipped, > > Then you have a bigger problem, namely that the file was corrupted.
This fragility is one of the main reasons it has always been discouraged (& regularly on this list) as an archive. --Toby > ... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
