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Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 06:34:25
Subject: Amanda and ZFS
From: Nick Smith <nick.smith AT techop DOT ch>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:28:14 +0200
Dear Amanda Administrators.

What dump configuration would you suggest for backing up a ZFS pool of about 300GB? Within the pool there several smaller 'filesystems'.

Would you :

1.  Use a script to implement ZFS snapshots and send these to the server
    as the DLE?
2.  Use tar to backup the filesystems? We do not make much use of ACLs
    so tar's lack of ACL support shouldn't be an issue?
3.  Something else?

Question : If a use 2 can still use 'amrecover' which AFAIK would be the
           case if I went with 1??

The host is a Sun Solaris 10 X86 box is that pertinent.

Many Thanks for any assistance!!

Nick Smith

Lead Software Engineer (and reluctant system administrator)
TECH OP AG
Switzerland

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