Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental-forever

2008-06-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
If I read the man page right, you might only have to keep a minimum of two on each side (maybe even just one on the receiving side), although I might be tempted to keep an extra just in case; say near current, 24 hours old, and a week old (space permitting for the larger interval of the last one).

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental-forever

2008-06-06 Thread Peter Karlsson
Or you could use Tim Fosters ZFS snapshot service http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_now_with /peter On Jun 6, 2008, at 14:07, Tobias Exner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about the following situation and I know there are some > things I have to understand: > > I want to use

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental-forever

2008-06-06 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi Tobias, I did this for a large lab we had last month, I have it setup something like this. zfs snapshot [EMAIL PROTECTED] zfs send -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ssh server2 zfs recv rep_pool ssh zfs destroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh zfs rename [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] zfs

[zfs-discuss] zfs incremental-forever

2008-06-06 Thread Tobias Exner
Hi, I'm thinking about the following situation and I know there are some things I have to understand: I want to use two SUN-Servers with the same amount of storage capacity on both of them and I want to replicate the filesystem ( zfs ) incrementally two times a day from the first to the second