On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:19:25AM -0800, Anantha N. Srirama wrote: > > You're right that storage level snapshots are filesystem agnostic. I'm > not sure why you believe you won't be able to restore individual files > by using a NetApp snapshot? In the case of ZFS you'd take a periodic > snapshot and use it to restore files, in the case of NetApp you can do > the same (of course you've to have the additional step to mount the > new snapshot volume.) Is this convenience tipping the scales for you > to pursue ZFS?
Yes, we'd run out of LUNs. We're talking about two weeks of daily snapshots on six filesystems. Each snapshot on the Netapp would become a separate iSCSI LUN. They need to be mounted on the server so that our admins can locate and restore missing files when necessary. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
