On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <l...@fajar.net> wrote: >> 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? > > yes, that sucks as you need to write it to a temporary file first.
EDIT: you CAN write the zfs stream directly to tape (using plain output redirection, without using tar) so you don't need a temporary file (at least this is true in Linux), but it's kinda awkward since you need to remember (or store somewhere else) where the zfs stream was from and what file number (on the tape) stores the stream. So again I suggest you use disk as backup media when possible. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
