On Wed, September 30, 2009 10:07, Robert Thurlow wrote: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> And I haven't been able to make incremental replication send/receive >> work. >> Supposed to be working on that, but now I'm having trouble getting a >> VirtualBox install that works (my real NAS is physical, but I'm using >> virtual systems to test things). > > I've had good success practicing and debugging zfs stuff > by creating small pools based on files and tinkering with > those, e.g. > > # mkfile 100m /root/zpool_test1 > # zpool create test1 /root/zpool_test1 > # mkfile 100m /root/zpool_test2 > # zpool create test2 /root/zpool_test2 > > This can get you a source of non-production data on a > real server.
That's where I started, and it's useful. I left out a bit above -- I had proven to my satisfaction that incremental replication streams don't work in the software version on my server. I'm trying to test current versions, before I commit to upgrading the pools and/or filesystems with the live data in them. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
