Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current
On 1-8-2010 19:57, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I've kind of given up on that. This is a home production server; it's got all my photos on it. The uncertainty around OpenSolaris made me drop it. I'm very sorry to say, because I loved the system. I do not want to worry all the time though, so I changed (back) to FreeBSD/amd64 with ZFS. I must say it runs very well and maintenance is very easy/clear. Not much help for you. I do hope there will be another OpenSolaris release, but I have my doubts. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current
What's a good choice for a decently stable upgrade? I'm unable to run backups because ZFS send/receive won't do full-pool replication reliably, it hangs better than 2/3 of the time, and people here have told me later versions (later than 111b) fix this. I was originally waiting for the spring release, but okay, I've kind of given up on that. This is a home production server; it's got all my photos on it. And the backup isn't as current as I'd like, and I'm having trouble getting a better backup. (I'll do *something* before I risk the upgrade; maybe brute force, rsync to an external drive, to at least give me a clean copy of the current state; I can live without ACLs.) I find various blogs with instructions for how to do such an upgrade, and they don't agree, and each one has posts from people for whom it didn't work, too. Is there any kind of consensus on what the best way to do this is? -- 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
Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: What's a good choice for a decently stable upgrade? I'm unable to run backups because ZFS send/receive won't do full-pool replication reliably, it hangs better than 2/3 of the time, and people here have told me later versions (later than 111b) fix this. I was originally waiting for the spring release, but okay, I've kind of given up on that. This is a home production server; it's got all my photos on it. And the backup isn't as current as I'd like, and I'm having trouble getting a better backup. (I'll do *something* before I risk the upgrade; maybe brute force, rsync to an external drive, to at least give me a clean copy of the current state; I can live without ACLs.) I find various blogs with instructions for how to do such an upgrade, and they don't agree, and each one has posts from people for whom it didn't work, too. Is there any kind of consensus on what the best way to do this is? You've got to point pkg to pkg.opensolaris.org/dev and then choose one of the development builds. If you run a `pkg image-update` right away, the latest bits you'll get are from build 134 which people have reported works OK. If you want to try something in between b111 and b134, see the following instructions: http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/updating_to_a_specific_build -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
