Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:58:25 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS License and Future Message-ID: <AANLkTi=h60%2B4iwTs8Leo9St2ZYpahug4B%2Bss0MMae%2B=X@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CD85736.1000207@stillbilde.net> References: <AANLkTi=dKatHYLFhC35VTT4fCAKgYLKEri2yVCPtSv7g@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinxLcrRoB6b2AcTrxHLqRCkyoWUhU=EmuvzEZQ8@mail.gmail.com> <20101106203016.GB13095@guilt.hydra> <20101106213836.GA77198@slackbox.erewhon.net> <AANLkTi=7MhvRTLP1NzGaHQFsV=FU8QDn5K73EmLPZH2k@mail.gmail.com> <4CD8194D.7080208@qeng-ho.org> <4CD82081.50309@stillbilde.net> <4CD837C9.6090800@qeng-ho.org> <4CD85736.1000207@stillbilde.net>
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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> wrote: > And I'm ... all too familiar with redundancy strategies (and backups). > Including their shortcomings. Speaking of which: Has there been any > progress on properly backing up ZFS on FreeBSD yet? (including the metadata) I use zetaback on my OpenSolaris systems; I don't know of any reason it wouldn't work on FreeBSD, since it's just using snapshots and zfs send/receive. IMHO it's really only suitable for disaster recovery backups, not archival, though, because zfs send streams are not guaranteed to be compatible between filesystem versions.home | help
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