[zfs-discuss] Procedure for Initial ZFS Replication to Remote Site by External HDD?

2009-08-12 Thread Nathan Hudson-Crim
What is the best way to use an external HDD for initial replication of a large ZFS filesystem? System1 had filesystem; System2 needs to have a copy of filesystem. Used send/recv on System1 to put filesys...@snap1 on connected external HDD. Exported external HDD pool and connected/imported on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Procedure for Initial ZFS Replication to Remote Site by External HDD?

2009-08-12 Thread Nathan Hudson-Crim
I figured out what I did wrong. The filesystem as received on the external HDD had multiple snapshots, but I failed to check for them. So I had created a snapshot in order to send/recv on System2. That doesn't work, obviously. A new local send/recv of the filesystem's correct snapshot did the