Ok, you *can* do this, but "zfs send" is *not* a backup mechanism. That warning is all over the documentation, and for good reason.
ZFS send is not a guaranteed stable format, it is quite possible that upgrades will leave you unable to receive that file, essentially leaving it unreadable. Also, any errors encountered during the receive will leave you with no data. ZFS receive is an all or nothing event, if so much as a single bit get corrupted for any reason, your entire backup is toast. If you really want to store a backup, create another ZFS filesystem somewhere and do a send/receive into it. Please don't try to dump zfs send to a file and store the results. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
