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...for offsite storage. In many cases, the snapshots greatly exceed the 8GB I can stuff onto a single DVD-DL. In order to make this work, I have used the "split" utility to break the images into smaller, fixed-size chunks that will fit onto a DVD. For example: #split -b8100m ./mypictures.zfssnap mypictures.zfssnap.split. This gives me a set of files like this: 7.9G mypictures.zfssnap.split.aa 7.9G mypictures.zfssnap.split.ab 7.9G mypictures.zfssnap.split.ac 7.9G mypictures.zfssnap.split.ad 7.9G mypictures.zfssnap.split.ae 7.9G mypictures.zfssnap.split.af 6.1G mypictures.zfssnap.split.ag...

This may be a bit poorly thought through but in this case I don''t really know enough to really think it through. My back ground is linux... there I used a tool called rsnapshot which used rsync and some hardlink magic to create versioned backups. But take very little space. By versioned I don''t mean as in version control but just copies of files as they change. It worked by