zfs dump to non-zfs host

[Kris Kennaway]

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