I have a series of daily snapshots against a set of data that go for several months, but then the server crashed. In a hurry, we set up a new server and just copied over the live data and didn't bother with the snapshots (since zfs send/recv was too slow and would have taken hours and hours to restore). We've now run on the replacement server for a year or so and it's time to upgrade to a new, faster server.
As part of building up our newest server, I wanted to combine the older snapshots with the daily snapshots generated on the server that is currently running. I was wondering what the proper way to do this might be. I was considering the following process for building up the new server : 1. Copy over all the snapshots from a backup of the server that crashed (11/01/2008 - 7/14/2009) using zfs send/recv 2. Copy over the oldest snapshot from the current server (7/15/2009) using rsync so that the data from that snapshot is the live filesystem data on the new server. 3. Take a snapshot on the new server and call it the same thing as the snapshot that I copied the data from (i.e. datap...@nightly20090715) 4. Do an incremental zfs send/recv from 7/15/2009 to today from the current server. I don't know if this would work, or if it would leave me in a consistent state even if I did make it work. Any suggestions? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
