Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-27 Thread Gregory Durham
Yep Dan, Thank you very much for the idea, and helping me with my implementation issues. haha. I can see that raidz2 is not needed in this case. My question now lies as to full system recovery. Say all hell brakes loose and all is lost except tapes. If I use what you said and just add snapshots to

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-27 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:01:36PM -0800, Gregory Durham wrote: > Hello All, > I read through the attached threads and found a solution by a poster and > decided to try it. That may have been mine - good to know it helped, or at least started to. > The solution was to use 3 files (in my case I ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-27 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello All, I read through the attached threads and found a solution by a poster and decided to try it. The solution was to use 3 files (in my case I made them sparse), I then created a raidz2 pool across these 3 files and started a zfs send | recv. The performance is horrible, it was 5.62mb/s. When

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-25 Thread Gregory Durham
Well I guess I am glad I am not the only one. Thanks for the heads up! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Jan 25, 2010, at 18:28, Gregory Durham wrote: > > One option I have seen is zfs send zfs_s...@1 > /some_dir/some_file_name. >> Then I can back this up to tape. This se

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-25 Thread David Magda
On Jan 25, 2010, at 18:28, Gregory Durham wrote: One option I have seen is zfs send zfs_s...@1 > /some_dir/ some_file_name. Then I can back this up to tape. This seems easy as I already have a created a script that does just this but I am worried that this is not the best or most secure way

[zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-25 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello all, I have quite a bit of data transferring between two machines via snapshot send and receive, this has been working flawlessly. I am now wanting to back the data from the failover to tape.I was planning on using bacula as I have a bit of experience with it. I am now trying to figure out th