Re: [Veritas-bu] ZFS Filesystem Backups

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Re: [Veritas-bu] ZFS Filesystem Backups - Tips and tricks

From:

"Mark Glazerman" <Mark.Glazerman AT spartech DOT com>

To:

"Ed Wilts" <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>

Date:

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:24:41 -0500

Ed,

I’ve actually had a guy at Symantec contact me through the mailing list and say that there are binaries available which should resolve this issue. I’m beginning to think that the support rep didn’t know what the deal was with ZFS support because he actually sent me the document you referenced as a way to demonstrate that ZFS is NOT supported. When I looked at the document, it seemed to fly in the face of what he was telling me.

Mark Glazerman

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From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:17 AM
To: Mark Glazerman
Cc: Bryan S. Leaman; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ZFS Filesystem Backups - Tips and tricks

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Mark Glazerman <Mark.Glazerman AT spartech DOT com> wrote:

Thanks for that info. I wonder why the Symantec support rep I talked with yesterday made it sound like there were no plans to support ZFS filesystem backups in future releases unless a lot more people pushed for it ? Could he be referring to officially supporting ZFS rather than fixing the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES issue ?

I would challenge that claim - I suspect the support rep you talked to didn't know what he/she was talking about. After all, ZFS ACLs are officially supported as documented in the client compatibility technote at ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/278064.pdf. There's nothing in the technote that says that ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES will fail to discover ZFS volumes.

That said, since Symantec acknowledged the bug with an ETRACK, and fixed it, it is obvious that they're is committed to supporting ZFS.

.../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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