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

2008-08-01 15:34:00
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ZFS Filesystem Backups - Tips and tricks
From: Marion Hakanson <hakansom AT ohsu DOT edu>
To: "Mark Glazerman" <Mark.Glazerman AT spartech DOT com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:10:30 -0700
Mark.Glazerman AT spartech DOT com said:
> Incase anyone is considering implementing any ZFS in their environment which
> they want to back up using NetBackup we found out yesterday that
> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES as the backup selection does NOT cover ZFS filesystems.   

Hmm, what version are you running?  We're at 6.0MP4, and we have a number
of policies backing up systems with ZFS, using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, and the
ZFS filesystems are indeed being backed up.  I just restored a file from
such a filesystem on our master/media server, since you got my attention
this a.m. (:-).  Said master server has /opt/openv/ on ZFS, in fact.  Some
quick spot-check restores on a couple other clients also worked.

Some of these policies have multistreaming enabled, and some do not.  Some
have exclude files and some do not.  Some have True Image Restore enabled
and some do not.  All are Solaris-10, and all have UFS root filesystems
(no ZFS root/boot yet, no OpenSolaris yet).

So, whatever the problem is, we don't appear to be experiencing it.

Regards,

Marion



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