Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Poulos, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Is there a  ZFS equivalent of ufsdump and ufsrestore? 
>>
>>  
>>
>>  Will creating a tar file work with ZFS?     We are trying to backup a
>> ZFS file system to a separate disk, and would like to take advantage of
>> something like ufsdump rather than using expensive backup software.
> 
> The closest equivalent to ufsdump and ufsrestore is "star".

I very strongly disagree.  The closest ZFS equivalent to ufsdump is 'zfs 
send'.  'zfs send' like ufsdump has initmiate awareness of the the 
actual on disk layout and is an integrated part of the filesystem 
implementation.

star is a userland archiver.

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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