On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, cephas maposah <mapo...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello team > i have an issue with my ZFS system, i have 5 file systems and i need to take > a daily backup of these onto tape. how best do you think i should do these? > the smallest filesystem is about 50GB > here is what i have been doing i take snapshots of the 5 file systems, i zfs > send these into a directory gzip the the files and then tar them onto tape. > this takes a considerable amount of time. > my question is there a faster and better way of doing this?
So you zfs send to a file and save the file to tape? Personally, I use zfs send and zfs receive to replicate the data to a second system, and then simply tar the replicated file system to tape. That way I'm not dependent on zfs to get the data back (and can get individual files/directories back if necessary, which it often is). And you have the ability to slot that copy of the data instantly into service if the primary copy fails. For tar, you can substitute a free or commercial backup solution. It works the same way. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
