Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

[Goran Lowkrantz]

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

--glz

--On Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:05 AM +0100 "Svein Skogen (Listmail 
Account)" <svein-listmail at 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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