on 22/11/2010 13:35 Andrew Reilly said the following: > The troubling aspect of this plan is that it would seem that > grabbing just a few files would require space in the working > zpool equivalent to the whole backed-up file system, for the > zfs receive of the snapshot. Contrast this with restore, which > had a nice interactive (or command line) mode of operation that > could retrieve nominated files or directories, requiring only > space for the results. Is there any similar tool that can > operate on a ZFS "send" serialization? It would seem that the > information must be "in" there somewhere, but I've not heard of > it. > > Clues? How does everyone else manage this?
What I do is keep the snapshots for long enough and just retrieve the files from there. That is, snapshots - for the "clumsiness case", backups - for the disaster case. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
