Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-12 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Arjun YK wrote: > Thanks everyone. Your inputs helped me a lot. > The 'rpool/ROOT' mountpoint is set to 'legacy' as I don't see any reason to > mount it. But I am not certain if that can cause any issue in the future, or > that's a right thing to do. Any suggestion

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-12 Thread Arjun YK
Thanks everyone. Your inputs helped me a lot. The 'rpool/ROOT' mountpoint is set to 'legacy' as I don't see any reason to mount it. But I am not certain if that can cause any issue in the future, or that's a right thing to do. Any suggestions ? Thanks Arjun __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Peter Jeremy > > Finally, the send/recv protocol is not guaranteed to be compatible > between ZFS versions. Years ago, there was a comment in the man page that said this. Here it is: "The f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-May-12 00:20:28 +0800, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >Backup/restore of bootable rpool to tape with a 3rd party application like >legato etc is kind of difficult. Because if you need to do a bare metal >restore, how are you going to do it? This is a generic problem, not limited to ZFS. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com) wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arjun YK > > > > Trying to understand how to backup mirrored zfs boot pool 'rpool' to tape, > > and restore i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup complete rpool structure and data to tape

2011-05-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arjun YK > > Trying to understand how to backup mirrored zfs boot pool 'rpool' to tape, > and restore it back if in case the disks are lost. > Backup would be done with an enterprise tool like