From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 15 17:59:21 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 67A611065678 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B418FC15; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <48555878.9070301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:59:20 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush References: <48532183.2040306@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <48532183.2040306@psg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 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: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:59:21 -0000 Randy Bush wrote: > 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. If this is the case then presumably there will be a migration tool. zfs sending to a file is the officially recommended method. Kris