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Subject: Re: ZFS License and Future
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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.