Hi, I may have lost my first zpool, due to ... well, we're not yet sure. The 'zpool import tank' causes a panic -- one which I'm not even able to capture via savecore.
I'm glad this happened when it did. At home I am in the process of moving all my data from a Linux NFS server to OpenSolaris. It's something I'd been meaning to do ever since I heard Jeff Bonwick talk about ZFS at LISA '07. My plan was: - mirrored zfs pool on an OpenSolaris host, exported via NFS/Samba - nearline amanda backups on the same host, but to an external eSATA mirrored zfs pool - archival amanda backups on my old Linux host That plan would involve three zfs pools: - root pool on OpenSolaris host - mirrored storage pool on OpenSolaris host - mirrored external pool How do I protect these zfs pools? How do I prevent catastrophic loss of the whole pool, as I appear to have just experienced? I know I can always restore from backups but ... is there anything else I should be doing? I don't see any advice in any of the official ZFS guides. What steps are _you_ taking to protect _your_ pools? How are you protecting your enterprise data? How often are you losing an entire pool and restoring from backups? I'm looking forward to your suggestions. Thanks! _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
