Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:21:27 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files? Message-ID: <4CEA6047.30604@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20101122113541.GA74719@johnny.reilly.home> References: <20101122113541.GA74719@johnny.reilly.home>
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on 22/11/2010 13:35 Andrew Reilly said the following: > The troubling aspect of this plan is that it would seem that > grabbing just a few files would require space in the working > zpool equivalent to the whole backed-up file system, for the > zfs receive of the snapshot. Contrast this with restore, which > had a nice interactive (or command line) mode of operation that > could retrieve nominated files or directories, requiring only > space for the results. Is there any similar tool that can > operate on a ZFS "send" serialization? It would seem that the > information must be "in" there somewhere, but I've not heard of > it. > > Clues? How does everyone else manage this? What I do is keep the snapshots for long enough and just retrieve the files from there. That is, snapshots - for the "clumsiness case", backups - for the disaster case. -- Andriy Gapon
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