Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and compression

2009-08-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
James Lever wrote: Is there a mechanism by which you can perform a zfs send | zfs receive and not have the data uncompressed and recompressed at the other end? I have a gzip-9 compressed filesystem that I want to backup to a remote system and would prefer not to have to recompress everything a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and compression

2009-08-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Daniel Carosone wrote: However, the present behaviour is also useful: often when sending streams you want to recompress, such as when sending a production uncompressed dataset to a compressed backup/replica site. If the receiving filesystem uses a different compression

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and compression

2009-08-23 Thread Daniel Carosone
> I have a gzip-9 compressed filesystem that I want to > backup to a remote system and would prefer > not to have to recompress everything > again at such great computation expense. This would be nice, and a similar desire applies to upcoming streams after zfs-crypto lands. However, the presen

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and compression

2009-08-22 Thread James Lever
Is there a mechanism by which you can perform a zfs send | zfs receive and not have the data uncompressed and recompressed at the other end? I have a gzip-9 compressed filesystem that I want to backup to a remote system and would prefer not to have to recompress everything again at such gre