> On 22. Jan 2018, at 20:47, tech-lists wrote:
>
>> On 22/01/2018 16:38, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> for live sync you'll have to run software inside the guest that knows
>> how to properly freeze state. for example if there's a live database of
>> any kind you'll want it to be in its quiet state befo
> On Jan 22, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> i've used zfs for this, but i have to shut the guest down to do it. i'm using
> zvols for my guest system disks, so it's
>
> shut the guest down (maybe just to single-user mode)
> make a zfs checkpoint
> start the guest back up
> zfs send t
tech-lists wrote on 2018/01/22 20:47:
On 22/01/2018 16:38, Paul Vixie wrote:
for live sync you'll have to run software inside the guest that knows
how to properly freeze state. for example if there's a live database of
any kind you'll want it to be in its quiet state before you sync from
it. in
On 22/01/2018 16:38, Paul Vixie wrote:
> for live sync you'll have to run software inside the guest that knows
> how to properly freeze state. for example if there's a live database of
> any kind you'll want it to be in its quiet state before you sync from
> it. in those situations, i do use rsync.
i've used zfs for this, but i have to shut the guest down to do it. i'm
using zvols for my guest system disks, so it's
shut the guest down (maybe just to single-user mode)
make a zfs checkpoint
start the guest back up
zfs send the checkpoint
this also assumes that the sync-destination is a cold
tech-lists wrote on 2018/01/22 16:45:
Hello lists,
If I have two bhyve hosts, production [p] and reserve [r], and on both
there are identical guest[s] [1] and [2], what is the best way to sync
the guests? What's the best tool?
1. would syncing the guests from the host work? (in other words, run
Assuming you wanted sync and not just a shared volume the guest/host running
rsync to push/pull would work the best. But to be totally honest what I do
right now to allow guests access to stuff on the host file system is just
CIFS/SMB shares. It would probably be better to do NFS shares but I ha
Hello lists,
If I have two bhyve hosts, production [p] and reserve [r], and on both
there are identical guest[s] [1] and [2], what is the best way to sync
the guests? What's the best tool?
1. would syncing the guests from the host work? (in other words, running
some kind of tool like say rsync on