And herein lies the main clue. It seems Solaris, like FreeBSD, has the same lack-of-backup-options for zfs (dump doesn't work), unless you have a secondary server with at least the same amount of diskspace, running UFS, and willing to cache zfs sends on that ufs for writing those to the tape. While I've seen severe degradation of performance with FreeBSD UFS2 on large (as in the size of my storage zpool) ufs'es, I have no reason to suspect that Solaris has the same problem. So, the next question is split into several alternatives (assuming that Solaris UFS still has the capability of splitting dumps over more-than-one tape?):
-Can I get OpenSolaris to install to UFS? If so, how? -Is there a way to get the yge OpenSolaris package (yukon gigabit ethernet that's actually compatible with dladm, as opposed to the one from Marvell) installed on plain vanilla Solaris 10u8, since QFS-SAM isn't ported to OpenSolaris (yet)? (I've got another suitable box to handle the iSCSI/NFS/SMB jobs that can use the QFS backend, since this box has nowhere near the required diskspace by itself). -If I need to dance the compile-gnu-software-from-sources-spread-over-half-the-internet to make, and restore, backups: is there any real benefit (for me) choosing (Open)Solaris over FreeBSD, considering that I know my way around FreeBSD well enough to be able to keep my calm in a restore situation (And FreeBSD gives me sufficient performance for my needs). -Are there any planes in motion to make zfs send/recv capable of dumping to removable media in a sensible fashion (a simple "device full, press enter to continue on next device" would suffice)? Backing up to disks really isn't an option here, and buying more software now isn't really a good option either, since all those expenses are coming out of my personal pocket. //Svein -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
