On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:48 PM, David Magda wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:44, Richard Elling wrote: > >> On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Thomas Burgess wrote: >> >>> Also consider that you might not want to snapshot the entire pool. >> >> Snapshots work on the dataset, not the pool (there is no "zpool snapshot" >> command :-) > > Wouldn't a "zfs snapshot -r mypool" work?
That is just a shorthand for snapshotting (snapshooting? :-) datasets. There still is no pool snapshot feature. Or to put it another way, there is no way inside ZFS to replicate a pool. This usually isn't a big deal because your data is in the datasets. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance http://nexenta-atlanta.eventbrite.com (March 16-18, 2010) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
