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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]
> On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
> Sent: 25 April 2008 16:00
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Amanda and ZFS
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:32:27PM +0100, Anthony   Worrall wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > unfortunately zfsdump, or "zfs send" as it is now, does not relate
to
> > ufsdump in any way :-(
> >
> >
>   [ big snip ]
> >
> > One of the properties of zfs is that in encourages the use of a
> > filesystem for a logical set of files, i.e. user home directory,
> > software package etc.
> > This means that every time you create a new filesystem you need to
> > create a new DLE for amanda. In fact creating the amanda DLE takes
> > longer than creating the zfs filesystem.
> >
> > You can not just use tar to dump multiple zfs filestems because
amamda
> > tells tar not to cross filesystem boundaries.
> >
> > You could probably write a wrapper to tar to remove
--one-file-system
> > option to get around this limitation.
> 
> Another way would be to use include directives.  For example, if the
> zfs pool was /pool and had file systems of a, b,c, and d, you could
> set up multiple DLEs that were rooted at /pool (different tag names)
> and had include directives of "include ./a ./c" and another with
> "include ./b ./d"  While traversing each of the included starting
> points (directories), tar would never cross a file system boundary.
> 
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