Thanks for the response, Björn.
The hint regarding dataset-specific snapshots is good, though I have to
first think about how I would best make use of them.
However another point that you raised is interesting:
On Sunday, 16 March 2014 10:34:52 UTC+11, Bjoern Kahl wrote:
[...]
Under Mac
An advantage of snapshots is with active filesystems such as those used by
a database. For a consist at database backup you of course need to stop
the program then backup then restart ( or use some database tool if
available) . The time to create a snapshot is essentially zero so the
above start
Thanks for the detailed example!
On Monday, 17 March 2014 07:34:45 UTC+11, dch wrote:
I've been a happy maczfs and also zfsosx user for several years now.
[...]
zfs send is a very easy way to do a very trustable
backup, once you get past the first potentially large transfers.
Can this
