Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-12 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Arjun YK wrote: > Thanks everyone. Your inputs helped me a lot. > The 'rpool/ROOT' mountpoint is set to 'legacy' as I don't see any reason to > mount it. But I am not certain if that can cause any issue in the future, or > that's a right thing to do. Any suggestion

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-12 Thread Arjun YK
Thanks everyone. Your inputs helped me a lot. The 'rpool/ROOT' mountpoint is set to 'legacy' as I don't see any reason to mount it. But I am not certain if that can cause any issue in the future, or that's a right thing to do. Any suggestions ? Thanks Arjun __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Peter Jeremy > > Finally, the send/recv protocol is not guaranteed to be compatible > between ZFS versions. Years ago, there was a comment in the man page that said this. Here it is: "The f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-May-12 00:20:28 +0800, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >Backup/restore of bootable rpool to tape with a 3rd party application like >legato etc is kind of difficult. Because if you need to do a bare metal >restore, how are you going to do it? This is a generic problem, not limited to ZFS. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com) wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arjun YK > > > > Trying to understand how to backup mirrored zfs boot pool 'rpool' to tape, > > and restore i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arjun YK > > Trying to understand how to backup mirrored zfs boot pool 'rpool' to tape, > and restore it back if in case the disks are lost. > Backup would be done with an enterprise tool like

[zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Arjun YK
Hello, Trying to understand how to backup mirrored zfs boot pool 'rpool' to tape, and restore it back if in case the disks are lost. Backup would be done with an enterprise tool like tsm, legato etc. As an example, here is the layout: # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL