Exactly! This is what I meant, at least when it comes to backing up ZFS datasets. There are tools available NOW, such as Star, which will backup ZFS datasets due to the POSIX nature of those datasets. As well, Amanda, Bacula, NetBackup, Networker and probably some others I missed. Re-inventing the wheel is not required in these cases.
As I said in my original e-mail, Star is probably perfect once it gets ZFS (e.g. NFS v4) ACL and NDMP support (e.g. accepting NDMP input streams and ouputting onto tape). ZVOLs are the piece I'm still not sure about though. So I repeat my question: how are people backing up ZVOLs today? (If Star could do ZVOLs as well as NDMP and ZFS ACLs, then it literally *is* perfect.) On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:01, Joerg Schilling < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Stephen Bunn <scb...@sbunn.org> wrote: > > > between our machine's pools and our backup server pool. It would be > > nice, however, if some sort of enterprise level backup solution in the > > style of ufsdump was introduced to ZFS. > > Star can do the same as ufsdump does but independent of OS and filesystem. > > Star is currently missing support for ZFS ACLs and for extended attributes > from Solaris. If you are interested, make a test. If you need support for > ZFS > ACLs or Solaris extendd attributes, send me a note. > > Jörg > > -- > > EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de<email%3ajo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>(home) > Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > -- "You can choose your friends, you can choose the deals." - Equity Private "If Linux is faster, it's a Solaris bug." - Phil Harman Blog - http://whatderass.blogspot.com/ Twitter - @khyron4eva
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