From what little I can tell (am no professional sysadmin!), seems maybe like zfs and tape-backup can't be in the same sentence.
I mean, before solaris 10, tape-backup was a simple operation: just run ufsdump on each partition, easy!, done!
This zfs, doesn't seem so straightforward, making backup tapes. (Why needed? FIRE, that's why; make the tape, store it somewhere else.)
Sun's zfs manuals say basically nothing about making tape backups. I think Sun is taking the position that everyone has a big operation, tons of disks here and there, and you back up to them-- or zfs does it automatically.
And for such an operation, no backup would even begin to FIT on a tape.
As a single machine single user site, have I maybe bitten off too much by going to solaris 10? Would it be better to just drop back to 9?
Or am I just unnecessarily freaked out by the seeming complexity of zfs?
If I sound confused, well, I am. This zfs sure sounds complicated, compared to before-zfs. Is it, or does it just seem that way?
And about tape backup -- what about zfs there?
Thanks!
David the freaked-out-by-zfs.
