Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Joe Auty wrote: > My source computer is running Solaris 10 ZFS version 15. Does this mean that > I'd be asking for trouble doing a zfs send back to this machine from any > other ZFS machine running a version > 15? I just want to make sure I > understand all of th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Auty
Thanks for all of this info guys, I'm still digesting it... My source computer is running Solaris 10 ZFS version 15. Does this mean that I'd be asking for trouble doing a zfs send back to this machine from any other ZFS machine running a version > 15? I just want to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-07 Thread Nikola M.
On 04/ 6/11 07:14 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Joe Auty > wrote: > > How about getting a little more crazy... What if this entire > server temporarily hosting this data was a VM guest running ZFS? I > don't foresee this being a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: >    I thought I saw that with zpool 10 (or was it 15) the zfs send > format had been committed and you *could* send/recv between different > version of zpool/zfs. From Solaris 10U9 with zpool 22 manpage for zfs: There is still a problem if the d

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Lori Alt
On 04/ 6/11 11:42 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Brandon High wrote: The only thing to watch out for is to make sure that the receiving datasets aren't a higher version that the zfs version that you'll be using on the replacement server. Because you can't downgrade a da

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Brandon High wrote: > The only thing to watch out for is to make sure that the receiving datasets > aren't a higher version that the zfs version that you'll be using on the > replacement server. Because you can't downgrade a dataset, using snv_151a > and planning t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Joe Auty wrote: > How about getting a little more crazy... What if this entire server > temporarily hosting this data was a VM guest running ZFS? I don't foresee > this being a problem either, but with so > The only thing to watch out for is to make sure that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > On Tue, April 5, 2011 14:38, Joe Auty wrote: >> Also, more generally, is ZFS send/receive mature enough that when you do >> data migrations you don't stress about this? Piece of cake? The >> difficulty of this whole undertaking will in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread David Magda
On Wed, April 6, 2011 10:51, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm a big fan of rsync, in cronjobs or wherever. What it won't do is > properly preserve ZFS ACLs, and ZFS snapshots, though. I moved from using > rsync to using zfs send/receive for my backup scheme at home, and had > considerable trouble

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, April 5, 2011 14:38, Joe Auty wrote: > Migrating to a new machine I understand is a simple matter of ZFS > send/receive, but reformatting the existing drives to host my existing > data is an area I'd like to learn a little more about. In the past I've > asked about this and was told that

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-06 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, I'm debating an OS change and also thinking about my options for data migration to my next server, whether it is on new or the same hardware. Migrating to a new machine I understand is a simple matter of ZFS

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive to Solaris/FBSD/OpenIndiana/Nexenta VM guest?

2011-04-05 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, I'm debating an OS change and also thinking about my options for data migration to my next server, whether it is on new or the same hardware. Migrating to a new machine I understand is a simple matter of ZFS