From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 18:14:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DBB1065692 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:14:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordofhyphens@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f178.google.com (mail-iw0-f178.google.com [209.85.223.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6758C8FC15 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so1688825iwn.13 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:14:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7Ao5dD7Hsvku101xYF9M2WQeIJk/bsrUM/mWkgzSu6s=; b=uAo2eYgpfzjitVSpvQc/Xt5SSUce6l1gP2cre2Mx0cqJuosVAlZ0Sh7J++KkwvE3TE LPfiUXZVcyr8P2mF6nASLmmZ7XSs3AVvdbiWe9Jl26b1K++5oKQ/XOu+POxHam/8tWRZ +UM937xc3lospnYp9InNdYCK6dYyRmxngTxDk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E/SOiTlyLz3sK3J0z0mmRTKLgnrHXN9R/u4dbsCKAZCvR6G/Ns9he10gDZ2dHRm1bs fqlW7G7+sYOi0X2qq5tmpgJZyOTyVlEcNBJz4KS9QwOGgRiAYZ9ZRy72NID0XM19lhFk hOvR2n26kFUpaWd6tEnED797SToyPOaGW9kB0= Received: by 10.231.144.201 with SMTP id a9mr71057ibv.69.1265220866535; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?131.230.191.154? (ee173.engr.siu.edu [131.230.191.154]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm7742794iwn.6.2010.02.03.10.14.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:14:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B69BD02.5060305@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:14:26 -0600 From: LoH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4B694A52.4080306@stillbilde.net> In-Reply-To: <4B694A52.4080306@stillbilde.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:14:27 -0000 If my memory serves, you're looking at something similar to taking a snapshot and then sending it to the tape device, so zfs send | (tape device access). This, IIRC, is functionally identical to dump/restore. The Solaris ZFS Admin guide is generally helpful (even as we live in the FreeBSD world). (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/6n7ht6qsc?a=view) On 2/3/2010 4:05 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm currently considering switching my Backend (Running WSS2008 > Enterprise) to FreeBSD RELENG_8+zfs, however my last melee with ZFS and > backups to Autoloader (HP 1/8 G2 LTO-3 job) didn't quite turn out in my > favour. > > Seems FreeBSD has a decent backup solution for UFS/2 (dump/restore) but > such luxuries where nowhere to be found for ZFS (but the performance was > quite good!). > > So, my question is this: Can someone point me to the proper place to > start reading on getting RELENG_8+zfs backed up to "tape robotics" (or > more specifically: LTO-3 with a HP autoloader)? Will going the > Opensolaris route be easier? (I had hoped to be able to use net/istgt/ > from ports, but I guess I could find a different solution to that > problem in Solaris). > > Any pointers would really help me here. 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