Storix Software SBAdmin User Guide - Manual (Page 21)

Storix System Backup Administrator 21 Version 8.2 User Guide
8. Meta-disk Backup (Linux and Solaris systems only) – Meta-disks are often referred to as Software
RAID devices and MDs, multi-disks and meta-devices. This option is only available for Linux if
Software RAID support is installed on the system, and only available on Solaris if Solaris Volume
Manager is installed on the system. This option will provide the ability to backup specific meta-disks,
regardless of the type of device the meta-disk is built on. Meta-disks may be created on disks,
partitions, logical volumes, slices, and even other meta-disks.
9. ZFS Pool – Also called “zpools”, this backup is typically used to separately backup the ZFS pools that
are not part of the operating system. Files or ZFS volumes within the pool may also be backed up
incrementally, including only files within filesystems or volumes that have changed from a prior backup.
The backup may contain one or more zpools, and an entire zpool may be restored from the backup.
Individual files, directories, filesystems or raw volume data may be restored.
Zpool backups are only available for Solaris systems with ZFS installed.
10. ZFS Volume – This backup may include one or more "raw" ZFS volumes. From this backup, only an
entire volume may be restored. ZFS volume backups are only available for Solaris systems with ZFS
installed.
It is possible to later restore select data contained within the backup. It is not necessary to restore the entire
backup. A
System Backup , for instance, may contain multiple volume groups, each of which may contain raw
logical volumes and filesystems, each of which may contain various directories, which each contain multiple
files. It is therefore possible to restore one or more files, directories, logical volumes, filesystems, volume
groups, meta-disks, partitions, ZFS volumes or the entire system from a System Backup.