Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-28 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:04, Brian wrote: > Just a quick question before I address everyone else. > I bought this connector > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812198020 > > However its pretty clear to me now (after Ive ordered it) that it won't at > all fit in the SAS connec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-28 Thread Brian
> > > The two plugs that I indicated are multi-lane SAS > ports, which /require/ > using a breakout cable; don't worry - that the > design for them. > "multi-lane" means exactly that - several actual SAS > connections in a > single plug. The other 6 ports next to them (in > black) are SATA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread Trevor Pretty
Brian This is a chunk of a script I wrote: To make it go to another machine change the send/receive something like the other example below Creates a copy of a zfs filesystem and mounts it on the local machine (the "do_command" just made my demo self running). scrubbing is easy just a cron en

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 27-Jul-09, at 5:46 AM, erik.ableson wrote: The zfs send command generates a differential file between the two selected snapshots so you can send that to anything you'd like. The catch of course is that then you have a collection of files on your Linux box that are pretty much useless s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread erik.ableson
The zfs send command generates a differential file between the two selected snapshots so you can send that to anything you'd like. The catch of course is that then you have a collection of files on your Linux box that are pretty much useless since your can't mount them or read the contents

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread Erik Trimble
Brian wrote: Yes Ive thought about some off-site strategy. My parents are used to loading their data onto an external hard drive, however this always struck me as a bad strategy. A tape backup system is unlikely due to the cost, however I could get them to continue also loading the data onto an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread Brian
Thank you, Ill definitely implement a script to scrub the system, and have the system email me if there is a problem. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread Brian
Yes Ive thought about some off-site strategy. My parents are used to loading their data onto an external hard drive, however this always struck me as a bad strategy. A tape backup system is unlikely due to the cost, however I could get them to continue also loading the data onto an external ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Ross
> This is going to be used for my parents business (Im > merely setting it up for them and then leaving it.) > So basically what I want is reliability and > redundancy. I want there to be very little chance > of data loss as the business they are in requires > them to keep all documents. Ok, ZF

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Erik Trimble
Brian wrote: Im sorry I forgot to ask again if its worth setting to the Time Limited Recovery to its Raid counterpart mode. The reason I ask is because all I can find to do this is a DOS file so Im not sure how I would go about doing it in OpenSolaris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limite

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Brian wrote: as its great for that but I decided to try out ZFS. Now I read that its advisable to scrub the system every week or month, is it possible just to make a script that will do this so I dont have to be there? Also I know ZFS can use blank hard drives that will

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Brian
Im sorry I forgot to ask again if its worth setting to the Time Limited Recovery to its Raid counterpart mode. The reason I ask is because all I can find to do this is a DOS file so Im not sure how I would go about doing it in OpenSolaris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Reco

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Brian
Yea I have a cheap nvidia video card I found that should work with this. I found this MB at Fry's for under 100 dollars so I figured Id try it out. Its probably a discontinued line of server motherboards by SuperMicro so I figured it probably would be an OK board. 1.) Why would I put the bo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Erik Trimble
Brian wrote: Hello I recently purchased some hardware which I plan on turning into a data server. I purchased the following: 4 gigs of registered ECC ram 667 SuperMicro X7DCA motherboard (found it for really cheap and figured it couldn't be too bad) http://www.supermicro.com/products/mothe