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It’s not exactly best practice, but instead of tarballing the files themselves maybe you would have better performance just writing a snapshot via zfs send dire
by snuxoll 6y ago
It’s not exactly best practice, but instead of tarballing the files themselves maybe you would have better performance just writing a snapshot via zfs send direct to tape?
- sly010 6y agoI admit to have thought of that, but using a zfs stream for archival would make eventual restore that much more complicated. A single bit error at the beginning of the stream would make the rest of the archive un-accessible, whereas with tar I can literally slice the tape and still recover data from it.
- vorpalhex 6y agoYou can now tell ZFS to still process bad snapshots (with the risk of still losing some corrupted data).