>From the OpenSolaris ZFS FAQ page:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/faq
> If you want to use a hardware-level backup or snapshot feature instead of
the ZFS snapshot feature, then you will need to do the following steps:
* zpool export pool-name
* Hardware-level snapshot steps
* zpool import pool-name
sridhar surampudi wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> Thanks for your info.
>
> Sorry below might be lengthy :
>
> Yes I am looking for actual implementation rather how to use zpool split.
>
> My requirement is not at zfs file system level and also not zfs snapshot.
>
>
> As I understood,
> If my zpool say mypool is created using " zpool create mypool mirror device1
> device2"
> and after running : zfs split mypool newpool device2 ", I can access
> device2 with newpool
>
> Same data on newpool is available as mypool as long as there are no
> writes/modifications to newpool.
>
> What i am looking for is,
>
> if my devices ( say zpool is created with only one device device1) are from an
> array and I took array snapshot ( zfs /zpool doesn't come in picture as I take
> hardware snapshot), I will get a snapshot device say device2.
>
> I am looking for a way to use the snapshot device device2 by recreating the
> zpool and zfs stack with an alternate name.
>
> "zpool split" must be doing some changes to metadata of device2 to associate
> with the new name i.e. newpool,
>
> I want to do it for the same for snapshot device created using array/hardware
> snapshot.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> sridhar.
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