Cindy, Thank you very much for your input, what would you recommend as a way to backup zpools to tape?
Thanks, Greg On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Cindy Swearingen <cindy.swearin...@sun.com> wrote: > Greg, > > Sure lofiadm should work, but another underlying issue is that, currently, > building pools on top of other pools can cause the > system to deadlock or panic. > > This kind of configuration is just not supported or recommended > at this time. > > Thanks, > > Cindy > > > > > On 03/05/10 17:38, Gregory Durham wrote: >> >> Great...will using lofiadm still cause this issue? either by using mkfile >> or by using dd makeing a sparse file? Thanks for the heads up! >> >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Cindy Swearingen <cindy.swearin...@sun.com >> <mailto:cindy.swearin...@sun.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Greg, >> >> You are running into this bug: >> >> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6929751 >> >> Currently, building a pool from files is not fully supported. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Cindy >> >> On 03/05/10 16:15, Gregory Durham wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> I am using Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_129 >> I have a quick question. I have created a zpool on a sparse >> file, for instance: >> >> zpool create stage c10d0s0 >> mount it to /media/stage >> mkfile -n 500GB /media/stage/disks/disk.img >> zpool create zfsStage /media/stage/disks/disk.img >> I want to be able to take this file and back it up to tape. >> However, that is fine but if I reboot I see: >> >> pool: zfsStage >> state: UNAVAIL >> status: One or more devices could not be opened. There are >> insufficient >> replicas for the pool to continue functioning. >> action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool >> online'. >> see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-3C >> scrub: none requested >> config: >> >> NAME STATE READ WRITE >> CKSUM >> zfsStage UNAVAIL 0 0 >> 0 insufficient replicas >> /media/zfsStage/disks/disk1.img UNAVAIL 0 0 >> 0 cannot open >> >> I then tried: >> $zpool online zfsStage /media/zfsStage/disks >> cannot open 'zfsStage': pool is unavailable >> $ zpool online zfsStage /media/zfsStage/disks/disk1.img >> cannot open 'zfsStage': pool is unavailable >> >> Am I doing something wrong? When I restore from tape how would I >> mount this if this sort of thing is coming up? Hopefully someone >> can help me out. >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org <mailto: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
