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Date:      Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:41:58 +0100
From:      Goran Lowkrantz <goran.lowkrantz@ismobile.com>
To:        "Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS
Message-ID:  <744EADA728B1895ABAFC7BF9@[10.255.253.2]>
In-Reply-To: <4B694A52.4080306@stillbilde.net>
References:  <4B694A52.4080306@stillbilde.net>

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I have been using Amanda straight from the port, it supports both tar from=20
snapshots if you need to be able to retrieve individual files from the=20
backup and zfs send if recovery at filesystem level is OK.

--glz

--On Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:05 AM +0100 "Svein Skogen (Listmail=20
Account)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> wrote:

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> 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. The storage backend will be on
> MFI arrays (set up with redundant striping + automagic weekly
> consistency checks of the arrays).
>
> //Svein
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