[a quick reply to the beloved Orvar, on my lunch hour...] economy is bad, save some $ -- don't pay for tools, do your own open solution for this. know JAVA? Hash your data and see if they are cool. http://oceanstore.sourceforge.net/javadoc/pond/ostore/dataobj/DataObject.DataBlock.html#computeVhash()
best, SuperUser, z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Orvar Korvar" <knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> To: <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:14 AM Subject: [zfs-discuss] Possible to copy a zpool safely? rsync? zfs send? >I have a ZFS raid with 4 samsung 500GB disks. I now want 5 drives samsung >1TB instead. So I connect the 5 drives, create a zpool raidz1 and copy the >content from the old zpool to the new zpool. > > Is there a way to safely copy the zpool? Make it sure that it really have > been copied safely? Ideally I would like a tool that copies from source to > destination and checks that the copy went through. A night mare would be > if the copy get interrupted, and I have to copy again. How can I be sure > that the new invocation has copied everything, from the interruption? > Using gnu commander feels a bit unsafe. It will only copy blindly(?), and > no more. Will it tell me if something went wrong? > > How do you make sure the copy has been correct? Is there any utility that > does exactly that? (Does cp warn if there was any error?) > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > 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
