Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-10-20 Thread nathulal babulal
bjquinn - on article - http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=89567 i would like to contact you. i am new to zfs and exactly need what you mentioned your requirements were and that you figured out a solution for it. would you like to share the solution step by step with me. pleas

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-10-20 Thread nathulal babulal
bjquinn - on article - http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=89567 i would like to contact you. i am new to zfs and exactly need what you mentioned your requirements were and that you figured out a solution for it. would you like to share the solution step by step with m

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Ridd
On 28 Jan 2009, at 19:40, BJ Quinn wrote: >>> What about when I pop in the drive to be resilvered, but right >>> before I add it back to the mirror, will Solaris get upset that I >>> have two drives both with the same pool name? >> No, you have to do a manual import. > > What you mean is that

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-28 Thread BJ Quinn
>> What about when I pop in the drive to be resilvered, but right before I add >> it back to the mirror, will Solaris get upset that I have two drives both >> with the same pool name? >No, you have to do a manual import. What you mean is that if Solaris/ZFS detects a drive with an identical pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
BJ Quinn wrote: > That sounds like a great idea if I can get it to work-- > > What does? > I get how to add a drive to a zfs mirror, but for the life of me I can't find > out how to safely remove a drive from a mirror. > > Have you tried "man zpool"? See the entry for detach. > Also, if I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-26 Thread BJ Quinn
That sounds like a great idea if I can get it to work-- I get how to add a drive to a zfs mirror, but for the life of me I can't find out how to safely remove a drive from a mirror. Also, if I do remove the drive from the mirror, then pop it back up in some unsuspecting (and unrelated) Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, BJ Quinn wrote: > Is there any way to speed up a compressed zfs send -R? Or is there > some other way to approach this? Maybe some way to do a bit-level > clone of the internal drive to the external drive (the internal > backup drive is not the same as the OS drive, so it

[zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

2009-01-22 Thread BJ Quinn
I'm using OpenSolaris with ZFS as a backup server. I copy all my data from various sources onto the OpenSolaris server daily, and run a snapshot at the end of each backup. Using gzip-1 compression, mount -F smbfs, and the --in-place and --no-whole-file switches for rsync, I get efficient space