[zfs-discuss] ZFS backup/restore

2010-01-24 Thread Alexander Welter
Are there any plans to have a tool to restore individual files from zfs send streams - like ufsrestore? Specially for recovering from unintended file removal/changes of OS related files it would be nice to be able to restore just the file in question, instead of restoring the entire

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup/restore

2010-01-24 Thread David Magda
On Jan 24, 2010, at 07:18, Alexander Welter wrote: Are there any plans to have a tool to restore individual files from zfs send streams - like ufsrestore? No publicly stated plans by Sun. If you have a support contract with Sun, I'd recommend calling them up and telling them that you wish

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup/restore

2010-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Are there any plans to have a tool to restore individual files from zfs send streams - like ufsrestore? The best advice I've heard so far is thus: On your backup media, create a zpool in a file container. When you zfs send don't save the data stream. Instead, feed it directly into zfs