Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question : snapshots, replication and recovering failure of Site B

2010-11-01 Thread erik.ableson
On 26 oct. 2010, at 16:21, Matthieu Fecteau wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to use the replication scripts on that page : > http://www.infrageeks.com/groups/infrageeks/wiki/8fb35/zfs_autoreplicate_script.html > > It uses the timeslider (other way possible) to take snapshots, uses zfs > send/rece

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question : snapshots, replication and recovering failure of Site B

2010-10-27 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Matthieu Fecteau wrote: > My question : in the event that there's no more common snapshot between Site > A and Site B, how can we replicate again ? (example : Site B has a power > failure and then Site A cleanup his snapshots before Site B is brought back, > so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Gary Gendel
Norm, Thank you. I just wanted to double-check to make sure I didn't mess up things. There were steps that I was head-scratching after reading the man page. I'll spend a bit more time re-reading it using the steps outlined so I understand these fully. Gary -- This message posted from opens

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Norm Jacobs
On 09/ 5/10 07:18 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I would like to migrate my home directories to a new mirror. Currently, I have them in rpool: rpool/export rpool/export/home I've created a mirror pool, users. I figure the steps are: 1) snapshot rpool/export/home zfs snapshot rpool/export/h...@

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread Graeme West
Hi David, Thanks, there's no need to ask around. I should be able to work it out. Thanks for your help. Graeme On 12 Apr 2008, at 15:47, David Magda wrote: > On Apr 12, 2008, at 10:23, Graeme West wrote: > >> Do you happen to have a note of the settings from the Xserve RAID >> admin utility in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread Richard Elling
Graeme West wrote: > --Apologies if you get two copies of this message - it was submitted > for moderation and hasn't appeared on the list in two days, so I'm > resubmitting. > > Hi all, > Just a quick question. Is it possible to utilise an Apple Xserve RAID > as an array for use with ZFS with R

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread David Magda
On Apr 12, 2008, at 10:23, Graeme West wrote: > Do you happen to have a note of the settings from the Xserve RAID > admin utility in order to present things as a JBOD? It may be > straightforward, I'm not too familiar with the utility. Not off-hand. It's a separate dev group that tends to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread Graeme West
Hi David, Thanks, that's good news, as we're trying to repurpose an Xserve RAID with some new servers. > exporting things as a JBOD and using ZFS to tie things together. That's exactly what I want to do. Our current setup is two mirrored RAID-5 arrays, so we'd probably set up a couple of RAI

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question: ZFS on Xserve RAID with Solaris 10

2008-04-12 Thread David Magda
On Apr 12, 2008, at 07:52, Graeme West wrote: > Just a quick question. Is it possible to utilise an Apple Xserve > RAID as an array for use with ZFS with RAID-Z in Solaris? Yes. In one of our development labs we have the "Xraid" (now discontinued) exporting things as a JBOD and using ZFS to t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question removing disk

2008-03-03 Thread Tim
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk > if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use > to be no but I'm not sure if that has changed or will change. > JOHN > > -- > *

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question removing disk

2008-03-03 Thread Tim
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk > if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use > to be no but I'm not sure if that has changed or will change. > JOHN > > -- > *