Hi
I have installed Nexenta Community Edition as a virtual storage appliance in
my
home lab server. The server is running VMware ESXi 4.1 on an HP ML110 G5
server
with 2x1TB SATA disks and a 60GB SSD. All three disks are configured as
datastores which hold the VM disks.
The server also h
Damon (and others)
For those wanting the ability to perform file backups/restores along with all
metadata, without resorting to third party applications, if you have a Sun
support contract, log a call asking that your organisation be added to the list
of users who wants to see RFE #5004379 "wa
>> Until you try to pick one up and put it in a fire safe!
>Then you backup to tape from x4540 whatever data you need.
>In case of enterprise products you save on licensing here as you need a one
>client license per x4540 but in fact can >backup data from many clients which
>are there.
Which
>It is actually not that easy.
>
>Compare a cost of 2x x4540 with 1TB disks to equivalent solution on LTO.
>
>Each x4540 could be configured as: 4x 11 disks in raidz-2 + 2x hot spare
>+ 2x OS disks.
>The four raidz2 group form a single pool. This would provide well over
>30TB of logical storage p
>> While I am sure that star is technically a fine utility, the problem is that
>> it is effectively an unsupported product.
>From this viewpoint, you may call most of Solaris "unsupported".
From the perspective of the business, the contract with Sun provides that
support.
>> If our customers
> If you like to have a backup that allows to access files, you need a file
> based
> backup and I am sure that even a filesystem level scan for recently changed
> files will not be much faster than what you may achive with e.g. star.
>
> Note that ufsdump directly accesees the raw disk device
While I can appreciate that ZFS snapshots are very useful in being able to
recover files that users might have deleted, they do not do much to help when
the entire disk array experiences a crash/corruption or catches fire. Backing
up to a second array helps if a) the array is off-site and for ma
>> The beauty of ufsdump/ufsrestore is that because it's bundled with the
>> operating system, I can perform bare metal recovery using a Solaris DVD and
>> locally attached tape drive. It's simple and arguably essential for system
>> administrators.
> Yep. And it was invented because there wa
> When we brought it up last time, I think we found no one knows of a
> userland tool similar to 'ufsdump' that's capable of serializing a ZFS
> along with holes, large files, ``attribute'' forks, windows ACL's, and
> checksums of its own, and then restoring the stream in a
> filesystem-agnostic
Hi
We have a number of customers (~150) that have a single Sun server with
directly attached storage and directly attached tape drive/library. These
servers are currently running UFS, but we are looking at deploying ZFS in
future builds.
At present, we backup the server to the local tape drive
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