From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 01:40:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC39106564A for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:40:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [IPv6:2001:418:1::39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0746C8FC0A for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:40:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from 50.216.138.210.bn.2iij.net ([210.138.216.50] helo=rmac.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1K7Kkf-000BCw-6Q for freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:40:21 +0000 Message-ID: <48532183.2040306@psg.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:40:19 +0900 From: Randy Bush User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: zfs dump to non-zfs host X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:40:22 -0000 currently, my dump server is a large non-zfs raid to which i use dump over ssh to a remote host, as in /sbin/dump 0Luaf - /dev/twed0s1a | $SSH $BSYS "/bin/cat > $DDIR/base" now i have a zfs host that i want to dump to this server. yes, i know i can snapshot on the zfs system itself. but what if it goes completely dead? it is in an earthquake zone, ... /sbin/dump does not work, of course. files created with zsend might not be decodable in a future version, so i can not zsend | to it. clue bat, please. randy