Hi,

Just wondering whether mirroring a USB drive with main laptop disk for backup purposes is recommended or not.

Current setup, single root pool set up on 200GB internal laptop drive :

$ zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
 scrub: non requested
config :
        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          c5t0d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0


I have a 320GB external USB drive which I'd like to configure as a mirror of this root pool (I know it will only use 200GB of the eternal one, not worried about that).

Plan would be to connect the USB drive, once or twice a week, let it resilver, and then disconnect again. Connecting USB drive 24/7 would AFAIK have performance issues for the Laptop.

This would have the added benefit of the USB drive being bootable.

- Recommended or not ?
- Are there known issues with this type of setup ?


cheers

Matt

_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Reply via email to