Re: [zfs-discuss] disaster recovery process (replace disks)

2010-07-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Swearingen > > Hi Ned, > > One of the benefits of using a mirrored ZFS configuration is just > replacing each disk with a larger disk, in place, online, and so on... Yes, the autoexpan

Re: [zfs-discuss] disaster recovery process (replace disks)

2010-07-17 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Ned, One of the benefits of using a mirrored ZFS configuration is just replacing each disk with a larger disk, in place, online, and so on... Its probably easiest to use zfs send -R (recursive) to do a recursive snapshot of your root pool. Check out the steps here: http://www.solarisinter

[zfs-discuss] disaster recovery process (replace disks)

2010-07-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I believe I know enough to figure this out on my own, but there's usually some little "gotcha" that you don't think of until you hit it. I'm just betting that Cindy has already a procedure written for just this purpose. ;-) In general, if you've been good about backing up your rpool via "zfs s