Re: [zfs-discuss] How to "mirror" an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Gaëtan Lehmann
Le 28 juil. 09 à 15:54, Darren J Moffat a écrit : > How do I monitor the progress of the transfer? Once Unfortunately there is no easy way to do that just now. When the 'zfs recv' finishes is it is done. I've just found pv (pipe viewer) today (http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml ) w

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to "mirror" an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Thomas Walker
I think you've given me enough information to get started on a test of the procedure. Thanks very much. Thomas Walker -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to "mirror" an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
I think this is probably something like what I want, the problem is I'm not really "getting it" yet. If you could explain just what is happening here in an example. Let's say I have this setup; oldpool = 10 x 500GB volumes, with two mounted filesystems; fs1 and fs2 I create newpool = 12 x 1TB

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to "mirror" an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Thomas Walker
> zpool create newpool > zfs snapshot -r oldp...@sendit > zfs send -R oldp...@sendit | zfs recv -vFd newpool I think this is probably something like what I want, the problem is I'm not really "getting it" yet. If you could explain just what is happening here in an example. Let's say I

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to "mirror" an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
Thomas Walker wrote: We are upgrading to new storage hardware. We currently have a zfs pool with the old storage volumes. I would like to create a new zfs pool, completely separate, with the new storage volumes. I do not want to just replace the old volumes with new volumes in the pool we a

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to "mirror" an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread michael schuster
Thomas Walker wrote: We are upgrading to new storage hardware. We currently have a zfs pool with the old storage volumes. I would like to create a new zfs pool, completely separate, with the new storage volumes. I do not want to just replace the old volumes with new volumes in the pool we are

[zfs-discuss] How to "mirror" an entire zfs pool to another pool

2009-07-28 Thread Thomas Walker
We are upgrading to new storage hardware. We currently have a zfs pool with the old storage volumes. I would like to create a new zfs pool, completely separate, with the new storage volumes. I do not want to just replace the old volumes with new volumes in the pool we are currently using. I