Ok so I left the thumb drive to try to backup all weekend. It got *most* of the first snapshot copied over, about 50MB, and that's it. So I tried an external USB hard drive today, and it actually bothered to copy over the snapshots, but it does so very slowly. It copied over the first snapshot (the "full stream") at about 25MB/s (uncompressed). Seems silly that it won't retain compression during copy, which would speed up my transfer, but oh well. However, once it gets to the incrementals, it slows down to about 1MB-5MB/s. Then, once it got to the last incremental snapshot, copied it over and then hung. (By the way, when I say incrementals, I don't mean I'm doing a zfs send -i, just a zfs send -R to a clean drive.) Now if I try to do a zfs list on my backup pool, it hangs and never comes back. My zfs send -R command has now also hung. iostat and the little green light on the external drive both show no further activity on the external drive.
This is crazy. I feel like I'm beta testing a brand new feature or something. Nothing works. Does anybody actually use this? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
