On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 03:38:09PM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: > On 8/27/2010 13:40, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >I have eliminated all dual-boots from my lan. Now > >the only Windows are running as virtual guests > >using Virtual Box. Each guest acts as its own > >network entity, i.e. unique IP, addressable by > >name from other hosts. > > ... > > > >How are others doing this task? Currently I > >have started out doing both. > > > >Jon > if you can take the windows hosts down for even a brief period (< 5 > minutes total if they boot fast) you can shut them down, take a new > zfs snapshot, then bring them back up, resulting in a clean image > for incremental backups. amanda supports backups using zfs send, so > there should be no issue using this method.
As this is the second suggestion related to ZFS I'll have to say I'm not using ZFS at all. I do have a Solaris x86 client, but it is an old 32-bit Pentium 4 running Solaris 9, i.e. pre-ZFS :) Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
