Re: [zfs-discuss] When to Scrub..... ZFS That Is

2010-03-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
In addition to backups on tape, I like to backup my ZFS to removable hard disk. (Created a ZFS filesystem on removable disk, and "zfs send | zfs receive" onto the removable disk). But since a single hard disk is so prone to failure, I like to scrub my external disk regularly, just to verify the d

Re: [zfs-discuss] When to Scrub..... ZFS That Is

2010-03-13 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Thomas Burgess wrote: I scrub once a week. I think the general rule is: once a week for consumer grade drives once a month for enterprise grade drives. and before any planned operation which will reduce your redundancy/resilience, such as swapping out a disk for a new larger one when growin

Re: [zfs-discuss] When to Scrub..... ZFS That Is

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Burgess
I scrub once a week. I think the general rule is: once a week for consumer grade drives once a month for enterprise grade drives. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Tony MacDoodle wrote: > When would it be necessary to scrub a ZFS filesystem? > We have many "rpool", "datapool", and a NAS 7130,