Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Harry Putnam
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Dennis Clarke writes: >> >> > This will probably get me bombed with napalm but I often just >> > use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : >> > >> > star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir .

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir ... star doesn't (and shouldn't) create the destination ZFS filesystem like the zfs recv would. It also doesn't preserve the dataset l

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat wrote: > >>> use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : > >>> > >>> star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir ... > star doesn't (and shouldn't) create the destination ZFS filesystem like > the zfs recv would. It also doesn't preserve the dataset level w

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Dennis Clarke writes: This will probably get me bombed with napalm but I often just use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir and you're done.[1] So long as you have both the new

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Harry Putnam wrote: > Dennis Clarke writes: > > > This will probably get me bombed with napalm but I often just > > use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : > > > > star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir > > > > and you're done.[1] > > > > So long as you have both th

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke writes: > >> This will probably get me bombed with napalm but I often just >> use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : >> >> star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir >> >> and you're done.[1] >> >> So long as you have both the new and the old zfs/ufs/wh

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Dennis Clarke writes: > This will probably get me bombed with napalm but I often just > use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : > > star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir > > and you're done.[1] > > So long as you have both the new and the old zfs/ufs/whatever[2] > f

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Richard Elling writes: > >> You can only send/receive snapshots. However, on the receiving end, >> there will also be a dataset of the name you choose. Since you didn't >> share what commands you used, it is pretty impossible for us to >> speculate what you might have tried. > > I thought I m

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Ross Walker writes: > Once the data is copied you can delete the snapshots that will then > exist on both pools. That's the part right there that wasn't apparent. That zfs send z1/someth...@snap |zfs receive z2/someth...@snap Would also create z2/something > If you have mount options set u

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Elling writes: > You can only send/receive snapshots. However, on the receiving end, > there will also be a dataset of the name you choose. Since you didn't > share what commands you used, it is pretty impossible for us to > speculate what you might have tried. I thought I made it clea

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-12 Thread Ross
You're getting confused between snapshots and filesystems. Read @ as "at", it's a snapshot of that filesystem at a particular point in time. eg, you could create snapshots with names like: z1/proje...@now z1/proje...@13-july-2009 z1/proje...@my-snapshot They're all snapshots of the z1/project

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-12 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Reading various bits of google output about send/receive I'm starting to wonder if that process is maybe the wrong way to go at what I want to do. I have a filesystem z1/projects I want to remove it from the z1 pool and put it in a z2 pool end

Re: [zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-12 Thread Richard Elling
Harry Putnam wrote: Reading various bits of google output about send/receive I'm starting to wonder if that process is maybe the wrong way to go at what I want to do. I have a filesystem z1/projects I want to remove it from the z1 pool and put it in a z2 pool ending up with z2/projects. With a

[zfs-discuss] first use send/receive... somewhat confused.

2009-07-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Reading various bits of google output about send/receive I'm starting to wonder if that process is maybe the wrong way to go at what I want to do. I have a filesystem z1/projects I want to remove it from the z1 pool and put it in a z2 pool ending up with z2/projects. With all the same data, same