on Wed Feb 18 2009, Frank Cusack <fcusack-AT-fcusack.com> wrote: > On February 17, 2009 3:57:34 PM -0800 Joe S <js.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, David Magda <dma...@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote: >>> If you want to do back ups of your file system use a documented utility >>> (tar, cpio, pax, zip, etc.). >> >> I'm going to try to use Amanda and backup my data (not snapshots). > > You missed the point, which is not to avoid snapshots, but to avoid > saving the stream as a backup. Backing up a snapshot is typically > preferred to backing up a "live" filesystem.
Has anyone here noticed that http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide suggests in several places that zfs send streams be stored for backup? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
