Blake <blake.ir...@gmail.com> writes: > I think you will be helped by looking at this document: > > <http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recommendations_and_Requirements> > > It addresses many of your questions. > > I think the easiest way to back up your OS might be to attach a disk > to the rpool as a mirror, use 'installgrub' to get the grub boot > blocks onto the new mirror disk, then detach this disk and put it in > storage.
Thanks for the pointer... looks like I can confuse myself with this guide for quite a while ... hehe. One question springs to mind immediately about attaching a mirror for backup of the os. I'm doing this on pc hardware. I don't know enough yet to understand how zpools repair themselves or how the parity data really works to recreate missing data. Or what might happen if a zpool were mounted with a disk missing. Imagine I have all hardware controller plugins used up with disks in various pools. So to install a disk to use for the mirror, something else will have to be unhooked (I mean manually). When I boot up to transfer zpool data to the newly added mirror disk, one or another zpool will be missing a disk. Is that something that will cause some kind of big problem? Or would I be able to do something so the effected pool did'nt get mounted... or maybe other choices I have no idea about yet? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
