Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs send/receive incremental

2007-06-05 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Starfox wrote: First time around, create a snapshot and send it to remote: zfs snapshot master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] zfs send master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh mirror zfs recv backup/mirrorfs Once that's done, [EMAIL PROTECTED], correct? More accurately, master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] == backup/[EMAIL PROT

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs send/receive incremental

2007-06-03 Thread Richard Elling
Starfox wrote: I don't need fail-over or anything. All I want is for what I consider important (ie, Documents, settings, etc.) off a portion of a pool to be replicated onto another machine, so if a catastrophic failure happens where I lose both mirrors due to PS frying or ZFS bit-rotting an i

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs send/receive incremental

2007-06-03 Thread Starfox
Yes, I've read through tons of blogs.sun.com/* entries, went through the mailing list looking for the proper way to do it, etc. Unfortunately, zfs send/recv remains a hack that requires an elaborate script wrapper precisely because zfs send/recv is by nature a send-only/recv-only operation (whi

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs send/receive incremental

2007-06-03 Thread Chris Gerhard
Oddly I posted a script that does what you want all be ti without sending it to a remote system on friday to my blog (http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/rolling_incremental_backups) which i use to backup my system to an external USB drive. --chris This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs send/receive incremental

2007-06-03 Thread Starfox
I'm curious as well. I'm trying to set up a near-line backup using two ZFS-based machines, and am a bit confused on how to set it up properly. First time around, create a snapshot and send it to remote: zfs snapshot master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] zfs send master/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh mirror zfs recv