Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshots and rsync

2010-04-20 Thread G. Ander
Thank you very much for your help! I wasn't aware of those options. ...sending end is running rsync < 3.0 (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS), crossing my fingers, hoping it'll work. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@op

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshots and rsync

2010-04-17 Thread Erik Trimble
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, G. Ander wrote: According to how rsync works, the actual sent data should be much less than the size of the file(s), however, I noticed that the used space of the dataset+snapshot was the combined size of the older and newer file. The increase of

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshots and rsync

2010-04-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, G. Ander wrote: According to how rsync works, the actual sent data should be much less than the size of the file(s), however, I noticed that the used space of the dataset+snapshot was the combined size of the older and newer file. The increase of space consumed is becau

[zfs-discuss] zfs snapshots and rsync

2010-04-17 Thread G. Ander
Hi, I've got a large file - 20gigs - which is stored in a zfs dataset. I snapshotted the dataset and rsynced an newer, updated version of the same file - slightly larger, but with mostly unchanged data. According to how rsync works, the actual sent data should be much less than the size of the