[zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Terry Hull
First of all, I must apologize. I'm an OpenSolaris newbie so please don't be too hard on me. Sorry if this has been beaten to death before, but I could not find it, so here goes. I'm wanting to be able to have two disk servers that I replicate data between using send / receive with

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Terry Hull
Thanks for the info. If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is then a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? -- Terry -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Terry Hull wrote: Thanks for the info. If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is then a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? If there are no common snapshots, then the first question is how did we get

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull t...@nrg-inc.com wrote: Thanks for the info. If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is then a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? -- Terry I think a better way of stating it is that it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:15, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull t...@nrg-inc.com wrote: Thanks for the info. If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is then a full replication back to the primary server. Is that correct? --

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:15, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull t...@nrg-inc.com wrote: Thanks for the info. If that last common snapshot gets destroyed on the primary server, it is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:51, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:15, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull t...@nrg-inc.com wrote: Thanks for the info. If that last common

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:36:10PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: That's all about *ME* picking the suitable base snapshot, as I understand it. Correct. I understood the recent reference to be suggesting that I didn't have to, that zfs would figure it out for me. Which still appears to me

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 2/10/2010 7:21 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:36:10PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: That's all about *ME* picking the suitable base snapshot, as I understand it. Correct. I understood the recent reference to be suggesting that I didn't have to, that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication primary secondary

2010-02-10 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:48:57PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: But I see how it could indeed be useful in theory to send just a *little* extra if you weren't sure quite what was needed but could guess pretty closely. I think it's mostly for the benefit of retrying the same command, if