Hi Darren, That's storing a dump of a snapshot on external media, but files within it are not directly accessible. The work Tim et all are doing is actually putting a live ZFS filesystem on external media and sending snapshots to it.
A live ZFS filesystem is far more useful (and reliable) than a dump, and having the ability to restore individual files from that would be even better. It still doesn't help the OP, but I think that's what he was after. Ross On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ross wrote: >> >> Ok, I see where you're coming from now, but what you're talking about >> isn't zfs send / receive. If I'm interpreting correctly, you're talking >> about a couple of features, neither of which is in ZFS yet, and I'd need the >> input of more technical people to know if they are possible. >> >> 1. The ability to restore individual files from a snapshot, in the same >> way an entire snapshot is restored - simply using the blocks that are >> already stored. >> >> 2. The ability to store (and restore from) snapshots on external media. > > What makes you say this doesn't work ? Exactly what do you mean here > because this will work: > > $ zfs send [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dd of=/dev/tape > > Sure it might not be useful and I don't think that is what you mean here so > can you expand on "sotre snapshots on external media. > > -- > Darren J Moffat > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
