Re: [zfs-discuss] moving rppol in laptop to spare SSD drive.

2010-10-23 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Steve Arkley wrote: > is there anyway to get the data over onto the other drive at all? You can create a new pool on the replacement drive and use send | recv to populate it. There are a few properties that are normally set on a boot pool, namely bootfs, which p

Re: [zfs-discuss] moving rppol in laptop to spare SSD drive.

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Arkley
Doh, Why didn't I think of that cheers Mark, some time the most obvious options get completely passed by, alt boot environment it is. Thanks Steve. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] moving rppol in laptop to spare SSD drive.

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Farmer
Hi Steve, Couple of options. Create a new boot environment on the SSD, and this will copy the data over. Or zfs send -R rp...@backup | zfs recv altpool I'd use the alt boot environment, rather than the send and receive. Cheers, -Mark. On 19/09/2010, at 5:37 PM, Steve Arkley wrote: > He

[zfs-discuss] moving rppol in laptop to spare SSD drive.

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Arkley
Hello folks, I ordered a bunch of 128Gb SSD's the other day, placed 2 in PC, another in a windoz laptop and I thought I'd place one in my opensolaris laptop, should be straightforward or so I thought. The problem I seem to be running into is that the partition the rpool is on is 130Gb, SSD onc