I'm about to start migrating a lot of files on UFS filesystems from a Solaris 9 server to a new server running Solaris 10 (u3) with ZFS (a Thumper). Now... What's the "best" way to move all these files? Should one use Solaris tar, Solaris cpio, ufsdump/ufsrestore, rsync or what?
I currently use Solaris tar like this: cd $DIR && tar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - . | rsh $HOST "cd $NEWDIR && tar [EMAIL PROTECTED] -" ufsdump/ufsrestore doesn't restore the ACLs so that doesn't work, same with rsync. cpio will fail with filenames with strange characters (since Solaris cpio doesn't support the "print0/0" options from Gnu find/cpio). Considering that this is some 4TB of files to move - what other alternatives are there? Is there some faster alternative to "rsh" - I wonder if a tool that was designed for interactive communications really is suited for multi-terabyte data transfers :-) Anyway - how did you convert your large filesystems? /Eagerly awaiting ZFS ACL support in Samba and rsync... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
