Oh, and one more thing: rsync is only good if your filesystems don't really rely on ZFS/NFSv4-style ACLs. If you need those, you are stuck with Solaris tar or Solaris cpio to carry the files over, or you have to script up replication of ACLs after rsync somehow.
You should also replicate the "local" zfs attributes of your datasets, "zfs allow" permissions, ACLs on ".zfs/shares/*" (if any, for CIFS) - at least of their currently relevant live copies, which is also not a fatally difficult scripting (I don't know if it is possible to fetch the older attribute values from snapshots - which were in force at that past moment of time; if somebody knows anything on this - plz write). On another note, to speed up the rsyncs, you can try to save on the encryption (if you do this within a trusted LAN) - use rsh, or ssh with "arcfour" or "none" enc. algos, or perhaps rsync over NFS as if you are in the local filesystem. HTH, //Jim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
