Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Gregory J. Benscoter wrote:
>>
>> I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If
>> this occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit
>> flop occurred in be the only degraded file? Lastly how does the
>> reliability of this plan compare to more traditional backup tools
>> like tar, cpio, etc…?
>
> The whole stream will be rejected if a single bit is flopped. Tar and
> cpio will happily barge on through the error.
That is one of the reasons why we at work do send/recv only into
live ZFS file systems -- any error would become apparent
immediately. Not that we have seen that happen yet, and I alone have
been doing hourly sends/recvs for years with a growing number of ZFS
file systems, over a hundred in between.
--
Herr Rowohlt, Sie schrieben einmal, bei Schwaebisch ziehe sich Ihnen
das Skrotum zusammen. Isch des im Augebligg au dr Fall?
-- Verena Schmidt
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