Re: [zfs-discuss] Remote Replication

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Ahrens
EE> My main question is: does anyone have experience doing this in EE> production? It looks good on html and man pages, but I would like to EE> know if there are any caveats I should be aware of. Various threads EE> I've read in the alias archives do not really seem to talk about EE> people's ex

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remote Replication

2006-12-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Eric, Saturday, December 23, 2006, 6:26:22 AM, you wrote: EE> Hi all, EE> I'm currently investigating solutions for disaster recovery, and would EE> like to go with a zfs-based solution. From what I understand, there EE> are two possible methods of achieving this: an iscsi mirror over a W

Re: [zfs-discuss] remote replication with huge data using zfs?

2006-05-12 Thread Patrick
Hi, By mirroring remotely, you create a dependency between the two hosts and their interconnects. In general, this will be noticeable by performance bottlenecks as the system is only as fast as the slowest component (ala a chain is as strong as its weakest link). Well what about copying snaps

Re: [zfs-discuss] remote replication with huge data using zfs?

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:01 -0700, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > > plan A. To mirror on iSCSI devices: > > keep one server with a set of zfs file systems > > with 2 (sub)mirrors each, one of the mirrors use > > devices physically on remote site accessed as > > iSCSI LUNs.

Re: [zfs-discuss] remote replication with huge data using zfs?

2006-05-11 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> plan A. To mirror on iSCSI devices: > keep one server with a set of zfs file systems > with 2 (sub)mirrors each, one of the mirrors use > devices physically on remote site accessed as > iSCSI LUNs. > > How does ZFS handle remote replication? > If