Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:48:57PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > But I see how it could indeed be useful in > theory to send just a *little* extra if you weren't sure quite what was > needed but could guess pretty closely. I think it's mostly for the benefit of retrying the same command,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 2/10/2010 7:21 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:36:10PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: That's all about *ME* picking the suitable base snapshot, as I understand it. Correct. I understood the recent reference to be suggesting that I didn't have to, that z

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:36:10PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > That's all about *ME* picking the suitable base snapshot, as I understand > it. Correct. > I understood the recent reference to be suggesting that I didn't have > to, that zfs would figure it out for me. Which still appears to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:51, Tim Cook wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> >> On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:15, Tim Cook wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull wrote: >> > >> >> Thanks for the info. >> >> >> >> If that last common snapshot g

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:15, Tim Cook wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull wrote: > > > >> Thanks for the info. > >> > >> If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is > >> then a full

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:15, Tim Cook wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull wrote: > >> Thanks for the info. >> >> If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is >> then a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? >> >> -- >> Terry

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is > then a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? > > -- > Terry > > I think a better way of stating it is that it picks th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Terry Hull wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is then > a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? If there are no common snapshots, then the first question is "how did we

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Terry Hull
Thanks for the info. If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is then a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? -- Terry -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Terry Hull wrote: > First of all, I must apologize. I'm an OpenSolaris newbie so please don't > be too hard on me. [phasers on stun] > Sorry if this has been beaten to death before, but I could not find it, so > here goes. I'm wanting to be able to have two d

[zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Terry Hull
First of all, I must apologize. I'm an OpenSolaris newbie so please don't be too hard on me. Sorry if this has been beaten to death before, but I could not find it, so here goes. I'm wanting to be able to have two disk servers that I replicate data between using send / receive with snapsho