Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question : snapshots, replication and recovering failure of Site B

2010-11-01 Thread erik.ableson
On 26 oct. 2010, at 16:21, Matthieu Fecteau wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to use the replication scripts on that page : > http://www.infrageeks.com/groups/infrageeks/wiki/8fb35/zfs_autoreplicate_script.html > > It uses the timeslider (other way possible) to take snapshots, uses zfs > send/rece

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question : snapshots, replication and recovering failure of Site B

2010-10-27 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Matthieu Fecteau wrote: > My question : in the event that there's no more common snapshot between Site > A and Site B, how can we replicate again ? (example : Site B has a power > failure and then Site A cleanup his snapshots before Site B is brought back, > so

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question : snapshots, replication and recovering failure of Site B

2010-10-26 Thread Matthieu Fecteau
Hi, I'm planning to use the replication scripts on that page : http://www.infrageeks.com/groups/infrageeks/wiki/8fb35/zfs_autoreplicate_script.html It uses the timeslider (other way possible) to take snapshots, uses zfs send/receive to replicate and another script for cleaning up the old snapsho

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Gary Gendel
Norm, Thank you. I just wanted to double-check to make sure I didn't mess up things. There were steps that I was head-scratching after reading the man page. I'll spend a bit more time re-reading it using the steps outlined so I understand these fully. Gary -- This message posted from opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Norm Jacobs
On 09/ 5/10 07:18 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I would like to migrate my home directories to a new mirror. Currently, I have them in rpool: rpool/export rpool/export/home I've created a mirror pool, users. I figure the steps are: 1) snapshot rpool/export/home zfs snapshot rpool/export/h...@

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Gary Gendel
I would like to migrate my home directories to a new mirror. Currently, I have them in rpool: rpool/export rpool/export/home I've created a mirror pool, users. I figure the steps are: 1) snapshot rpool/export/home 2) send the snapshot to users. 3) unmount rpool/export/home 4) mount pool users

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question on zpool

2009-07-20 Thread Sandra
Hello, I setup a NAS based on EON 0.58.9-b104 (Osol 2008/11) incl. a zfs (raid-z zpool). This is shared in my LAN via smb = working. System is running from a flash USB stick. I now installed Osol 2009/11 on a flash disk in the same machine, so I be able to boot either EON or Osol 2009/11. I trie

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread Graeme West
Hi David, Thanks, there's no need to ask around. I should be able to work it out. Thanks for your help. Graeme On 12 Apr 2008, at 15:47, David Magda wrote: > On Apr 12, 2008, at 10:23, Graeme West wrote: > >> Do you happen to have a note of the settings from the Xserve RAID >> admin utility in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread Richard Elling
Graeme West wrote: > --Apologies if you get two copies of this message - it was submitted > for moderation and hasn't appeared on the list in two days, so I'm > resubmitting. > > Hi all, > Just a quick question. Is it possible to utilise an Apple Xserve RAID > as an array for use with ZFS with R

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread David Magda
On Apr 12, 2008, at 10:23, Graeme West wrote: > Do you happen to have a note of the settings from the Xserve RAID > admin utility in order to present things as a JBOD? It may be > straightforward, I'm not too familiar with the utility. Not off-hand. It's a separate dev group that tends to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread Graeme West
Hi David, Thanks, that's good news, as we're trying to repurpose an Xserve RAID with some new servers. > exporting things as a JBOD and using ZFS to tie things together. That's exactly what I want to do. Our current setup is two mirrored RAID-5 arrays, so we'd probably set up a couple of RAI

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread David Magda
On Apr 12, 2008, at 07:52, Graeme West wrote: > Just a quick question. Is it possible to utilise an Apple Xserve > RAID as an array for use with ZFS with RAID-Z in Solaris? Yes. In one of our development labs we have the "Xraid" (now discontinued) exporting things as a JBOD and using ZFS to t

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread Graeme West
--Apologies if you get two copies of this message - it was submitted for moderation and hasn't appeared on the list in two days, so I'm resubmitting. Hi all, Just a quick question. Is it possible to utilise an Apple Xserve RAID as an array for use with ZFS with RAID-Z in Solaris? I've see

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question removing disk

2008-03-03 Thread Tim
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk > if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use > to be no but I'm not sure if that has changed or will change. > JOHN > > -- > *

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question removing disk

2008-03-03 Thread Tim
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk > if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use > to be no but I'm not sure if that has changed or will change. > JOHN > > -- > *

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question removing disk

2008-03-03 Thread John R. Sconiers II
Hi, New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use to be no but I'm not sure if that has changed or will change. JOHN -- * John R. Sconiers II

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question - Backing up ZFS to tape

2008-02-05 Thread Ross
Hey folks, I can see there's been a fair bit of discussion on this topic in the past, I wondered if anybody has any feedback on the best way to do this? We're looking to use ZFS and Samba to serve files to our windows clients, which means we'll be using NFSv4 permissions. While the data will b

[zfs-discuss] Newbie question - check my zfs/zone config?

2008-02-03 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
I'm building a production web server on a Sol10 u3 box , after giving up on u4 [1] Any zfs file systems have to be legacy mounted or EMC Networker/Legato backup won't see them. I've been building zfs systems and zones for a while now , but I still feel like a newbie, because the darn things just wo