[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and question on repetative data migrating to it efficiently...

2007-02-02 Thread Anton B. Rang
In general, your backup software should handle making incremental dumps, even from a split mirror. What are you using to write data to tape? Are you simply dumping the whole file system, rather than using standard backup software? ZFS snapshots use a pure copy-on-write model. If you have a

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and question on repetative data migrating to it efficiently...

2007-02-02 Thread jason
In general, your backup software should handle making incremental dumps, even from a split mirror. What are you using to write data to tape? Are you simply dumping the whole file system, rather than using standard backup software? We are using Veritas Netbackup 5 MP4. It is performing a