On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 12:12 -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:42:58AM -0700, Charlie wrote: > > Sorry to revive such an old thread.. but I'm struggling here. > > > > I really want to use zfs. Fssnap, SVM, etc all have drawbacks. But I > > work for a University, where everyone has a quota. I'd literally have > > to create > 10K partitions. Is that really your intention? > > Yes. You'd group them all under a single filesystem in the hierarchy, > allowing you to manage NFS share options, compression, and more from a > single control point. >
I'd agree except for backups. If the pools are going to grow beyond a reasonable-to-backup and reasonable-to-restore threshold (measured by the backup window), it would be practical to break it into smaller pools. After all, you'll probably have to restore a pool eventually. If that will take a week, your users won't be very happy with your solution. > > Of course, backups become a huge pain now. below, that's cumbersome > > for both backups and (especially) restores. > > Using traditional tools or ZFS send/receive? We are working on RFEs for > recursive snapshots, send, and recv, as well as preserving DSL > properties as part of a 'send', which should make backups of large > filesystem hierarchies much simpler. > Using EBS or NetBackup, can I get a single file back from tape only through the backup system? That's a big factor for production environments. Also, when users request a restore from tape from offsite backups, they'll usually specify a date range for when the file was 'good'. To accomplish that, you need to use the backup solution to find the requisite file. These 'fishing expeditions' (as I call them) can take a lot of time if direct access isn't available via the backup tool. I believe you're referring in the above to using zfs send/recv for backup to tape. Until the vendors work with zfs send/recv, it's not a viable option for filesystem backups in a production environment. Related to that, does anybody have a timeframe for direct support for ZFS send/recv (or something similar) in NBU or EBS? [ quota explanation deleted for brevity ] > > -- > Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
