Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot question

2010-07-30 Thread whitetr6
Thank you James, exactly the answer I needed. Regards, Mark On Jul 29, 2010 3:05pm, James Dickens wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Mark white...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm trying to understand how snapshots work in terms of how I can use them for recovering and/or duplicating virtual

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/recv initial data load

2011-02-16 Thread whitetr6
Hi, I have a very limited amount of bandwidth between main office and a colocated rack of servers in a managed datacenter. My hope is to be able to zfs send/recv small incremental changes on a nightly basis as a secondary offsite backup strategy. My question is about the initial "seed" of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/recv initial data load

2011-02-16 Thread whitetr6
All of these responses have been very helpful and are much appreciated. Thank you all. Mark On Feb 16, 2011 2:54pm, Erik ABLESON wrote: Check out : http://www.infrageeks.com/groups/infrageeks/wiki/8fb35/zfs_autoreplicate_script.html It also works to an external hard disk with localho

[zfs-discuss] Importing existing data

2011-06-11 Thread whitetr6
I have a home server running Solaris 11 Express that I want to move to OpenIndiana. There's nothing I need to retain on rpool, and my "datastore" pool has all of the data. My question is, can I install OpenIndiana oi_151 and be able to import the datastore zpool? When I tried from the live cd