On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:13 AM, Jorgen Lundman wrote:

>
> If we were to get two x4500s, with the idea of keeping one as a  
> passive
> standby (serious hardware failure) are there any clever solutions in
> doing so?

You should take a look at AVS, there are some ZFS and AVS demos online
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/

>
> We can not use ZFS itself, but rather zpool volumes, with UFS on- 
> top. I
> assume there is no zpool send/recv (although, that would be pretty  
> neat
> if there was!). Doing full rsyncs all the time would probably be slow.
>
> Would it be possible to do a snapshot, then 10 minutes later, another
> snapshot and only rsync the differences?

zfs send/recv and the incremental capability may also work for you
depending on your needs.

>
>
> Any advice will be appreciated.
>
> Lund
>
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