On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Walker <kall...@gmail.com> wrote:
> New to ZFS, I made a critical error when migrating data and > configuring zpools according to needs - I stored a snapshot stream to > a file using "zfs send -R [filesystem]@[snapshot] >[stream_file]". Why is this a critical error, I thought you were supposed to be able to save the output from zfs send to a file (just as with tar or ufsdump you can save the output to a file or a stream) ? > When I attempted to receive the stream onto to the newly configured > pool, I ended up with a checksum mismatch and thought I had lost my > data. Was the cause of the checksum mismatch just that the stream data was stored as a file ? That does not seem right to me. -- {--------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6---------7---------} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org/ ) -> Technical Advisor, RPI Players _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss