Until now, I've ran Windows Storage server 2008, but the ... lack of iSCSI performance has gotten me so fed up that I've now moved all the files off the server, to install opensolaris with two zpools, and nfs+smb+iSCSI sharing towards my windows clients, and vmware ESXi boxes (two of them). So far, so good.
Among the smb data, there is also almost a terabyte of photography work, that I _NEED_ backup of, which up until now has been performed using a HP 1/8G2 lto3 job (8 slots, 1 drive, LTO3 autoloader, 1u), connected by a sas-cable (connected to an MPT) However trying to wrap my head around solaris and backups (I'm used to FreeBSD) is now leaving me with a nasty headache, and still no closer to a real solution. I need something that on regular intervals pushes this zpool: storage 4.06T 1.19T 2.87T 29% 1.00x ONLINE - onto a series of tapes, and I really want a solution that allows me to have something resembling a one-button-disaster recovery, either via a cd/dvd bootdisc, or a bootusb image, or via writing a bootblock on the tapes. Preferably a solution that manages to dump the entire zpool, including zfses and volumes and whatnot. If I can dump the rpool along with it, all the better. (basically something that allows me to shuffle a stack of tapes into the safe, maybe along with a bootdevice, with the effect of making me sleep easy knowing that ... when disaster happens, I can use a similar-or-better specced box to restore the entire server to bring everything back on line). are there ... ANY good ideas out there for such a solution? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
